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...foremost problem that interviewers had to surmount was the scope and method of the interview itself. This was solved by giving four separate interviews to allow leeway for personal opinions, bias, and other psychological intrusions...
Lead by representatives of Eastern college chapters, including Harvard's, S.A.E. voted in a national convention last month to strike from its rules a controversial bias clause. According to the old regulation only "members of the aryan race" could join the fraternity...
...Chapters are skittishly allotted first to one set of people, then to another. The stern "line" and "unity" of a Flaubert (or of a professional instructor in how-to-write-a-novel) is replaced by the skilled amateur's best tool-a skewer of personal touch and bias that holds all the pieces together. To post-Edwardian writers, obsessed by character analysis and an urge to get to the bottom of everything, The Limit should bring two salutary reminders: 1) actions speak louder than words; 2) the agony of creation belongs to the author, not the reader...
...spots to invade the U.S. (Reuters is much cheaper in the U.S. than the big U.S. services). Now Reuters services 35 dailies, including the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor and the Anglophobe Chicago Tribune, which carefully scanned Reuters' file first to make sure there was no British bias. But many U.S. newsmen still do not consider Reuters anywhere near as valuable as A.P. or the United Press, and often U.S. newspapers use Reuters largely to backstop their other wire services. Last week, at its centenary dinner, standing with Prime Minister Attlee and Sir Christopher Chancellor, an American proposed...
...Toronto last week, Sir Senegal Rau, India's U.N. representative, gave newsmen his views on China. The government of "New China," he said, is a "coalition" of Communists and "other parties," and its chief concern is improving conditions in the country. While it does have a "Marxian bias," it is trying to complete its "democratic revolution." Concluded Rau: The present government "is the best China has had in centuries...