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¶ TIME also regrets the traffic jam, but can accept responsibility only for the inventory of Novelist Marquand's garage.—ED.
Priests & Psychiatrists
Sir:
You stated that the priests and psychiatrists got along as though they were made for each other [Feb. 28]. A very personal experience has taught me that the two groups are made for each other. I believe that religion and psychiatry have a common goal—the realization of man's aspirations . . . Religion teaches us the way to spiritual happiness. Psychiatry teaches us the way to emotional happiness . . . Your fascinating forum coverage clearly shows the progress being made towards spiritual and mental peace.
TAN N. TRENITÉ
Takoma Park, Md.
Sir:
The psychiatric staff of Georgetown University Hospital is somewhat disturbed by the article . . . For well over five years this Roman Catholic hospital has been conducting a psychiatric outpatient clinic and treating over 200 patients per month . . .
ROBERT P. NENNO, M.D.
Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, D.C.
The Brothers
Sir:
TIME was probably not aware of it, but the two Egans pictured in its Feb. 28 edition (Father Willis Egan in Religion and Richard Egan under Cinema) are brothers. I knew both of them quite well both on and off the campus of the University of San Francisco and have not yet quite fully recovered from the experience!
The older, "Father Will," is hands-down the best-looking Jesuit in America and probably one of the brainiest. After some brilliant broken-field running through the Jesuit training program . . . he is back to his old stamping ground doing the thing he loves best: stirring up the 'happy vegetables' who populate the athletic teams . . . Younger brother "Rich" (by five or six years) has trained himself for his acting profession no less than Father Will . . . After walking off with every public-speaking and debating medal in the West, he returned after a tour to the South Pacific [as an artillery officer] to teach speech at U.S.F. and to work on a master's degree at Stanford . . . Hollywood called him after a scout caught his Othello in a Stanford Players production, and he has been slowly climbing the Hollywood heights ever since. He brings to his profession all the Christian virtues, asceticism, and hard work that his priestly brother brings to his . . .
KEN ALLEN
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
¶For a look at Father Will and Brother Rich together, —ED.
Breathing Under Water
Sir:
In your Feb. 28 review of the movie Underwater!, your reviewer mentions Jane Russell not being at her best "at ten fathoms with a tank of oxygen on her back and her teeth clamped on an Aqua-Lung." It is not likely that she would be. Compressed air, not oxygen, is used with an Aqua-Lung, and oxygen breathed at depths of more than about 35 ft. becomes highly toxic to the human body, resulting in convulsions, blackout, and eventully death . . .
FREDERICK & BARBARA CARRIER
New York City
The Offended Bulldog (Contd.)
Sir: