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. . . It is we, who believe in a compassionate personal God and a hereafter complete with resurrection of the body, who should be put away with a minimum of hubbub . . . It is the atheists who should have a little ceremony. For, lacking a belief in God, if they have any moral purpose in life, it must be solely the betterment of and service to their fellow men. It seems to me that some small tribute of remembrance in words and music would be fitting for one who had held the belief that he was returning to the black eternal void whence he came.
DONALD C. SKONE-PALMER
North Hollywood, Calif.
Care in Handling Worms
Sir:
. . . Remembrances of my boyhood were brought back to me by your quoting of the recollections of the Hon. George Leader's father, Mr. Guy Leader. He reminisced as to how he had to assist in poultry husbandry of the baby chicks and "to remove tapeworms from their throats by the use of a hair from the tail of a horse [TIME, Nov. 15]." Like him, I too often watched my mother perform a similar operation, [but] the only parasite my dear Republican mother was ever able to extract from the chick's throat was gapeworms.
J. WILSON BROWN
Natick, Mass.
Sir:
. . . Get fowled up in a lot of red tapeworm ?
J. MORISON
New York City
¶ TIME taped when it should have gaped. For difference, see cut.—ED.
The McCarthy Issue (Contd.)
Sir:
. . . TIME has completely lost any and all objectivity in the reporting of the McCarthy case . . . It gives me a great deal of pleasure not to renew my subscription . . .
GILBERT DURAND
Los Angeles
Sir:
. . . How many canceled subscriptions do you have to tabulate each week as an expression of the ire of McCarthyites over your point of view of their hero? . . . My renewal subscription to TIME for the next three years, which goes into the mail today, can offset three cancellations by Joe's joes. And I hereby take time to say so . . .
DOROTHY DUNCAN
Montreal
Heart in the Right Place
Sir:
I am a registered nurse and could not help noticing that the Nov. 22 picture showing the operation on Edna's heart seems to be taking place on the right-hand side of the body.
Could it be that the picture was reversed? Most texts describe the anatomical position of the heart as being more to the left of the chest.
RITA SHANAHAN
Montreal
Sir:
Very interesting! TIME has created a surgical first for Dr. Frank Glenn. I know of no other instance where a mitral commissurotomy was performed on a patient with dextrocardia.
Was TIME'S heart really in the right place?
Louis R.M. DEL GUERCIO, M.D.
New York City
¶ TIME'S was, but the patient's suffered from an accidentally reversed picture.—ED.