Letters, Apr. 28, 1952

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Bald Fact

Sir:

I'll bet any of your able editors the sum of $1 that the next President of the U.S. will be bald-headed . . .

ROBERT C. MASON

Los Angeles

Bishop on the Air Waves

Sir:

Let it be said, to TIME'S eternal credit, that its April 14 cover article ennobled one of God's noblemen. The Bishop Sheen story, like the Marian Anderson story [TIME, Dec. 30, 1946], will long be remembered as a superlative piece of biographical writing. Seldom have the spirit, the dedication and the intellect of a man been so completely captured. . .

FRANKLYN E. DOAN

Chicago

Sir:

Fearing that some irascible Protestant may send you an ill-favored letter of criticism of your feature article ... I hasten to write my thanks and appreciation . . .

(REV.) F. I. DREXLER

Mill Valley, Calif.

Sir:

Your article about Bishop Sheen was tops. A man so successful is a subject of interest to all ... Nevertheless, how can the average citizen forget that he gets wide publicity in the press such as his church does not allow when it is in control of a country?

The bishop is a member of a minority whose rights are protected by our Government ; yet there is danger that it will become the majority, then we, as the new minority, will be deprived of our rights and be treated as are Protestant minorities in Spain, Argentina, etc. . . . [Thus] His Excellency is a threat to the U.S. . . .

L. LEE LAYTON JR.

Dover, Del.

Sir:

. . . You've done a wonderful job of introducing and explaining Bishop Sheen to those who may wonder what a Roman Catholic clergyman is doing on television. Too many people (Roman Catholics included) have the feeling that priests should be as inconspicuous as possible, lest someone think that Rome is running the U.S. . . .

PATRICIA M. MADDEN

New York City

Sir:

I enjoyed your article on Fulton Sheen. He portrays Christian Truth in his programs only because he omits the relics, superstitions, traditions and nonBiblical hocus-pocus of the Roman Church . . .

(REV.) W. E. TREXLER

St. Stephen's Church (Evangelical and Reformed)

Perkasie, Pa.

Sir:

Bishop Sheen's Life Is Worth Living program might put a few psychoanalysts out of business. He has good medicine for a bewildered soul, and a lot more cures for a tired mind than listening to the antics of "Uncle Miltie."

Your presentation was wonderful, and proves that there is still room for God—even in a national publication.

GEORGE D. SCHECKEL

Chicago

Sir:

I am truly amazed. I had no idea our nation was blessed with a theologian of such stature that he influenced the popularity rating of Milton Berle to the extent of a ten-point drop . . .

JOHN MEEHAN

Boston

The Martians Are Coming

Sir:

It was a bright notion to use someone who had not read anything more recent than Robinson Crusoe to review my Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction [TIME, April 7]. To be expected, however, was the primitive satirical device of too-brief synopses to indicate absurdity. Shakespeare, by this method, reduces to boy meets girl.