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Mr. Stevens became a member of this company in 1951 only because the then writing members of it—Maxwell Anderson, Robert Sherwood and Elmer Rice—had desperate need of the business ability and organizing acumen to accelerate production of plays by other authors which Roger Stevens, a successful businessman, was eminently able to provide. That Mr. Stevens also happened to have some ready cash was deplored by none of us.
WILLIAM FIELDS The Playwrights' Company-New York City
Our Man on PP. 39-41
Sir, I am puzzled by the reference in your kindly review of Our Man in Havana to my slipping in a cruel] pointless carica ture of a dumb U.S. businessman." I can't remember any such character.
I grow old ... I grow old . . .
GRAHAM GREENE New York City
¶ See pp. 39-41 of Our Man in Havana.—ED.
Buckley's Elite
Sir:
Your Oct. 20 Milestone implied that William Frank Buckley founded a school in order to produce an "intellectual elite" from his grandchildren. My father's grandchildren are an intellectual elite by heritage. The school he founded will give them the education befitting such an elite.
ALOISE BUCKLEY HEATH West Hartford, Conn.
The Pope
Sir:
I am not a Catholic, but I was extremely glad to see the tasteful way in which TIME, Oct. 20 reported the Pope's demise. I think it was disgusting the way others reported it—as if it were a football game or some other play-by-play contest.
BERNARD K. STUART Morristown, N.J.
Sir:
You say that Pius XII "was able to make a tormented world feel the attraction of Christian goodness." Protestants in Spain, Colombia and Italy never felt this Christian goodness at the hands of the Roman Catholic Church during his reign.
CALVIN V. SMALHEER Gates Mills, Ohio
Sir:
I have just read your story. A good many of us wish you would work and write for the reading public instead of the Roman Catholic Church.
CLIFFORD WORTHING
Cincinnati
Talking Women
Sir:
I am shocked to hear the news of a woman's being considered for ordination in the Lutheran Church. Britta Olen says she's going to Africa to preach the word of God [Oct. 13]; yet she is doing exactly what the Bible forbids—how is she going to explain this to the natives?
FREDERICK PORTER Long Beach, Calif.
Sir:
"Let your women keep silence in the churches" does not refer to women as preachers but to their tendency for gossiping.
ELIZABETH ASKUE Cleveland
Arp's Art
Sir:
Congratulations on your Oct. 13 review of the sculpture of Jean Arp. His work is not only modern but eternal as well. His is definitely some of the freest, loveliest art I've ever seen.
How about a picture of this remarkable creator?
R. G. HALEVY
Santa Barbara, Calif.
Mutual Misunderstanding
Sir:
Perhaps Mr. Richard M. Alpher, who wrote [Oct. 6] about making "your stupid Southerners stupider," should come South to school to learn the proper use of the comparative form of the word "stupid." How can we come to mutual understanding when we have such people, who are blatant, ungracious, prejudiced and ignorant?
LEON W. GILLASPIE Birmingham
Sir: