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Sir: Whether we like it or not—and about 56% of us do like it—the Man of the Year problem was definitely settled on Nov. 4th. Any man who can successfully battle greed, corruption, disloyalty and incompetence of 20 years’ entrenchment deserves without question such an honor . . . Need I add, it is Eisenhower? ERNEST A. STIFEL Wheeling, W. Va. Sir: I suppose you will have many readers who will be nominating Eisenhower for Man of the Year. Please, please, TIME, do not be premature and thrust world greatness on him for this year; his job only begins next January . . . ETHEL MORISON Melbourne, Australia Sir: . . . General Naguib, the man who threw out Farouk. No man has done so much to rid part of the world of corruption . . . GARY OWEN Worthing, Sussex, England Sir: . . . I am inclined to suggest the Senator from Delaware, John Williams . . . R. SWAIN Los Angeles Sir: . . . Senator-elect John Fitzgerald Kennedy. JAMES P. MCCREADY Lowell, Mass. Sir: If permissible, may I nominate . . . Mr. John Voter, who so courageously and correctly declared himself in no uncertain terms to save our country from four more years of misrule . . . FULTON THOMPSON Jackson, Miss. From the Pyrenees Sir: Your article “The Embattled Basques,” published Sept. 22 (saved from censorship by an oversight), has been read by a vast number of Basques, since copies of the article were passed from hand to hand. We wish to congratulate you for so truthful an article, and to express to you our gratefulness, for, since we live under an oppressive dictatorship with a controlled one-party press, this article has given us new hope that we are not unknown . . . It is painful for us not to be able to stamp our signatures on this letter, but, if we should, it would mean sure imprisonment. This is the way of life of the Basques under Franco, as is the life of the Russians under the tyranny of Stalin, We are mailing this letter from our neighboring country, for, if it were mailed here, it would fall into the hands of the censor. OPPRESSED BASQUES Saint-Jean-de-Luz Basses-Pyrénées Cuisine, etc. Sir: That jambalaya thing in your Nov. 10 Letters column. I have GOT to know. What are “chorizos?” W. G. PIPPITT Pasadena, Calif. \> Spanish pork sausages, supercharged with cayenne pepper, paprika and garlic.—ED. Home Life of a Tycoon Sir: I am appalled! . . . Your Nov. 10 article … on top California executives and their jobs stuns me. Hard work is admirable. Long working hours, business dinners and homework are often necessary, profitable and understandable. But not when other factors, important in their own way, must be sacrificed. Are these men so selfish that they can go merrily on their way, content in their way of life while their wives are unhappy? These executives didn’t marry for love and companionship; they wanted only topnotch housekeepers, who are supposed to run the house, manage the servants, raise the children in a proper fashion, dress well, be good hostesses, and present themselves to the world as happy little women . . . These executives are not merely ambitious. They are selfish, inconsiderate, injudicious. Nothing is more important than their work (which is in essence themselves) . . . They are extreme egoists . . . Congratulations to the women who left their top executive husbands . . . MRS. KENNETH R. DECELLES Medford, Mass. Room for Improvement Sir: I read with a great deal of interest your Nov. 10 article about the Meditation Room which has recently been opened in the General Assembly building of the United Nations headquarters. It is amazing to note, at a time when we and all Christian nations are calling upon God for guidance, that in a room set apart ostensibly for religious meditation, there is nothing . . . suggestive of religion . . . HENRY W. DORSEY New Orleans Sir: We in the Laymen’s Movement, who have worked since 1946 for a room for prayer or meditation in the United Nations, are delighted with \[it\]. Your reporter seemed a bit let down . . . There are symbols in this present room, if one uses his imagination. The 300-year-old agba log from French Equatorial Africa is a symbol of man’s dependence upon God for his material wellbeing. The spotlight focused on a bowl of white flowers is a symbol of the light of God by which the peace of the world will come. For some, the break in front of the entrance is a defense against evil spirits, who travel in straight lines and cannot, therefore, go around the corner to enter this room. The ten lights in the ceiling are symbolic of the Ten Commandments representing God’s moral law . . . WEYMAN C. HUCKABEE Secretary The Laymen’s Movement New York City A Question of Credentials Sir: Your Nov. 10 report on the SS meeting in Verden, Germany, addressed by ex-Paratrooper General “Papa” Ramcke, reminded me of the circumstances of his capture by our 13th Regiment of the 8th Division . . . on Sept. 19, 1944\. Word was received that General Ramcke desired to surrender. He and his staff were in a bunker 75 feet underground, on the Crozon Peninsula outside Brest . . . At 1830 hours, Brigadier General Charles D. W. Canham . . . appeared to accept surrender. Very haughtily, Ramcke demanded of Canham his credentials. Canham pointed to the accompanying Tommy-gun and BAR men and replied: “These are my credentials.” Interestingly enough, General Canham, jumping in this year’s Texas maneuvers with the 82nd Airborne, was called “The Jumping Grandpa”. . . L. L. DAVIS Florham Park, NJ. The Eggheads Sir: I heartily share your joy over the election results. It was made even more gratifying because of the failure of the egghead rebellion—especially those Hollywoodians who didn’t have the fortitude to deny Communist affiliation . . . C. H. BROWN JR. Lieutenant, U.S.A.F. Greenville, SC. Sir: Although the shape of my own cranium is regrettably average and inconspicuous, I object strongly to your repeated derogatory use of the term, egghead . . . (MRS.) VAL REICHENTHAL Mayfield, N.Y. Sir: Hooray for the term eggheadery for New York’s ingrown intellectuals! I have long thought that the wordy inhabitants of Greenwich Village’s print-bedecked apartments had little to do with anything . . . CARLYLE OTTO Kansas City, Mo. After the Event Sir: That was an interesting piece in your Nov. 17 issue about British and European coverage of the U.S. election I have been startled by some letters to me from readers of the Daily Mail of London. There are people in the United Kingdom who apparently believe that President-elect Eisenhower will be sitting down with Senator Joseph McCarthy, walking down Michigan Boulevard with Colonel McCormick, and hanging on every word of Senator Robert Alphonso Taft. Anyway, some of us here are trying to persuade our readers in Britain and the Commonwealth to get the election result in proper perspective. And not all of us went overboard in forecasting victory for Adlai Stevenson. Rene MacColl, of the Daily Express, certainly did not; and one week before the election, my column in the Daily Mail and its syndicated newspapers said: “I now have a hunch, if not a deep conviction, that Eisenhower is going to win this election . . .” DON IDDON New York City Cory’s Baby Sir: Critics—in the Nov. 10 Letters column —of Joyce Gary’s Romance had better not make laws about the gyrations of babies by the observation of a selected group. We are the parents of three very dynamic children who respond to normal stimuli with expected actions.’ None of them learned to turn over from back to front before crawling . . . ALICE AND BOB CHEW Los Angeles Sir: . . . J. Hatch should know better than to make any set rules for babies: “All can roll off their backs before they can crawl.” The only rule which experience taught this mama is that all babies are different. BARBARA M. WAECHTER New Market, NJ. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6619752/letters-dec-1-1952/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6619752/letters-dec-1-1952/"},"headline":"Letters, Dec. 1, 1952","datePublished":"1952-12-01T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T06:38:38.164Z","description":"Man of the Year? Sir: Whether we like it or not—and about 56% of us do like it—the Man of the Year problem was definitely settled on Nov. 4th. 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