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...write history disguised as fiction, not fiction disguised as history. My Mr. Milton, allowing for Marie Powell's natural bias against the man who defrauded her mother of her "widow's thirds," is precisely the later renegade Milton-not the earlier orthodox Milton of the Minor Poems-who takes shape as one ploughs through the enormous mass of contemporary evidence provided by his Latin and English works, and by the more scholarly modern studies of his life and times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1945 | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...answer to PM's opponents who dislike the paper's liberal bias, Robertson points out, "it doesn't pretend to be impartial," "At least when you read a story in PM," he concludes, "you know that the author believes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robertson, Writer, Says Social Sciences Necessary for Political Correspondents | 1/19/1945 | See Source »

Despite the South's notorious anti-Catholic bias, Evidence speakers say that Southerners are invariably polite. In the North, Evidence speakers meet with much blank indifference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics on Soapboxes | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...course, it would be a lot safer just to quote both sides and let your friends guess what was really going on, for then no one could accuse you of bias or unfairness. It would be a lot easier, too, for it might take you hours of digging to get to the bottom of the story. You would have to talk to your newspaper friends to find out what they had uncovered too late to print because the story had "cooled off." You would have to talk off the record to politicians of both sides. You would find some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 28, 1944 | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

Married. Gwladys Sheleagh Boake Carter, 19, daughter of Newscaster Boake Carter, whose scripts are under investigation by the FCC for anti-union bias; and Ensign James Wallace Jr., 21, Philadelphia socialite; in Germantown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 21, 1944 | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

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