Letters: Aug. 17, 1962

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Re TIME People item, July 27: could you make it clearer to your readers that in the 1959 BBC interview and in my recent successful law case in London, my complaints were not that the trustees of my late father's foundation were withholding a part of my inheritance as you stated, but rather that the administrators "are not the people he wanted, are not running it as he wanted, and you cannot get proper accounts out of them."

Some are drawing remuneration of £10,000 each ($28,000) per annum, whereas the will provided £4,000 ($11,200). Ford Foundation trustees receive only $4,000 each, and the Rockefeller trustees do it for nothing.

NUBAR GULBENKIAN London

Father Flye

Sir:

Around here, from Jumpoff to Tickbush and from Lost Cove to Thumping Dick Hollow, we thought your feature on the James Agee letters to Father Flye [TIME, Aug. 3] magnificently done. It was a tribute well deserved by them both.

Nothing was said, however, of any letters Father Flye might have written to James Agee. Hereabouts we considered Father Flye the greatest correspondent since the 18th century.

Something might have been said of Father Flye's special mission in teaching. His life was dedicated to gifted boys. On the edge of our mountain here, overlooking the majestic slopes of Crow Creek Valley, stand the ruins of Father Flye's great dream, a school for gifted children.

What a pity it is that the academy never opened, but what a glory it is that he lived to see one of his boys achieve the recognition that TIME and Pulitzer have accorded.

ARTHUR BEN CHITTY The University of the South Sewanee, Tenn.

>After Agee's death, Father Flye recovered some 35 letters out of the 200 he had written the author through the years. He did not think there were enough of them or that they were important enough to include in the volume of Agee letters.-ED.

Just Plain Bill

Sir:

Re the man behind the BBC's administrative baton [TIME, Aug. 10]: even Liberace has a first name, but what is Clock's? Could it be Net Thrower Clock, Pianist Clock or Tastemaker Clock?

LEON M. BRYAN Oakland, Calif.

> His name is William.-ED.