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The vertical grille effect on the new Edsel is strongly reminiscent of the vertical grille of my 1935 Plymouth, still in use.
GOLDWIN GOLDSMITH
Austin, Texas
The Colonel & the Lady
Sir:
By influencing the Senate to kill Colonel James Stewart's promotion, Senator Smith has done her country a disservice. Colonel Stewart proved himself to be one of our most able staff officers as well as one of our great combat command pilots.
NORMAN VICKERY
Mansfield, Mass.
Sir:
I once admired Senator Margaret Chase Smith, but now I realize she is like most others of her sex—impulsively retaliative nincompoops.
THOMAS VILLALOVOZ
San Bernardino, Calif.
Top Rankers
Sir:
"The top ranks of American painters include only two women—Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe [TIME, Sept. 9]." How about Cecilia Beaux?
RICHARD M. HUBER
Princeton, NJ.
¶ For a typical sample of Philadelphia Portraitist Beaux's work (1863-1942), see cut.—ED.
Old Sacks
Sir:
The 1958 fashions are indeed "A Little Bit Monsterish." Apparently Paris' idea of fashion is to see who can conceive the most ridiculous outfit at the highest price.
GEORGE STONE
Cape Elizabeth, Me.
Sir:
Another designation might be "Droopy Drawers."
J. T. CRAYCROFT
Dallas
Sir:
Actually, la poitrine was never so emphasized as in the new décolletage, and le derrière is still with us. For the girls who are enceinte, that "sack" will be O.K., and the rest of us will just cinch in the side seams and add a swishy cummerbund. Voila!
ELSA PARSONS
Chicago
The Integration Front
Sir:
Where were "the best people" of Little Rock, Ark? We know the mayor was in his office. Why wasn't he out there in the street giving safe-conduct to women and children? Where were all the heaven-hollering preachers? Where were the priests of the "one true Church?" Where were the officers of the Y.M.C.A.? Where were the Boy Scout leaders? As a Southerner, I can understand the social issues. I am tolerant of a normal degree of cowardice. But the cowardice of "the best people" of Little Rock was an unnatural cowardice that ought to be explained—if it can be.
H. BRUCE PRICE
Alexandria, Va.
Sir:
Your diatribe against Arkansas' Faubus is nauseating.
JAMES I. MORTON
Howell, Mich.
Sir:
Any state whose governor is so audacious as to repudiate federal law should be cut off completely from all federal aid (highway construction included).
JANICE A. TORRINGTON
Villanova, Pa.
Sir:
Negroes denied the rights of citizenship should be exempt from taxes and compulsory military service.
EDWIN K. LANGILLE
Boston
Sir:
For Man of the Year: Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas—the only man to stem the black tide.
MAX SIEGEL
Washington, B.C.
Sir:
After reading your Sept. 9 article, I shook my head with a sudden realization; no matter how advanced our modern civilization, the train of thought remains prehistoric.
R. F. TRUPP