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...patients call [him] 'God'-and partly mean it" [TIME, Sept. 27]? I have known Sir Archibald since I crashed in flames in 1941, and have been under his chopper 32 times ... I have never heard him spoken of as God ... If your correspondent (may he be hoist by his own typewriter) had said that Sir Archie was known to the boys as "The Boss," "Maestro," "Mac," or merely "The Big White Chief," then he would have been guilty of complete accuracy. Thanks for the write-up, all the same . . . HENRY STANDEN Sussex, England
...Petard. If the Republicans needed any more petards to hoist Harry Truman, they had one in ex-Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Eccles. He agreed that the Administration's plan for increasing bank reserves was one way to check inflationary credit. It was a scheme which he had suggested himself last fall and which the President had then ignored. As for the rest of the President's program, such proposals as the long-range housing program would only force inflationary pressures even higher. Said Eccles: "It's like try ing to fill up the bathtub with the stopper...
Democratic roofers worked and worried last week in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, trying to hoist up the last piece of lumber before all the fears and feuds of the party were exposed. They listened to pleas and threats. Sometimes they argued. Labor's William Green demanded a plank for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, for which most Southern Democrats had voted in Congress. Harold Ickes demanded federal control of tidewater oil lands, which outraged such states' rights defenders as Texas' ex-Governor Dan Moody...
Giovanni Bellini's Feast of the Gods has long been a puzzle as well as a masterpiece. The gods look more drunk than divine. Vesta, protector of virgins, lies dozing in one corner of the picture while Priapus fiddles with her skirt. A blowsy Ceres helps Apollo hoist cup to lip. Neptune is paired off with Gaea, who holds a quince -the symbol of marriage. Bacchus appears as a child, and his foster father Silenus looks more like a slender ascetic than a roly-poly satyr. Generations of art scholars have wondered...
With almost 1500 sailors turning out daily to hoist dinghy sails in the afternoon, MIT has plenty of experienced material to draw from. Its present squadron already has carried off the Oberg Trophy for Boston's Greater Dinghy Championship, leading the Crimson, which took second, by a sizeable margin...