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...Wouk's Star (Contd...
Reading "The Wouk Mutiny" [Sept. 5] was like feeling a cool breeze when the temperature hits 98°. Hurrah! Decency has a champion in modern literature...
Your story on Herman Wouk and his blast against the irresponsibility of the intellectual could well be pointed up by Thomas Molnar's analysis of the rejection by the masses of the intellectual [Sept. 5]. Wouk's espousal of the family unit as a stabilizing force, and his recognition of man as primarily a creature of God, is in contrast to what Molnar calls the "rootlessness" of the intellectual. The American public may be uncultured, but they know the basic facts of life...
...history-making men and women whose portraits appear on TIME'S cover often write to tell us how they like the cover stories. In the past fortnight I was happy to receive such letters from two recent cover subjects: Author Herman Wouk and Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp, the Air Force's Space Surgeon...
Wrote Author Wouk: "I don't know whether the subjects of your cover stories usually receive the compliment in pleased silence, or what the protocol...