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...Brand, never before professionally performed in the U. S., at Litchneld, Conn.; a Booth Tarkington festival, supervised by Booth Tarkington and including Seventeen, Aromatic Aaron Burr, at Kennebunkport, Me.; Gallo-Shubert revivals at Jones Beach and Randall's Island, N. Y., Cleveland, Louisville; Victor Hugo's Ruy Bias at Central City, Colo.; and Paul Green's pageant, The Lost Colony, at Manteo, Roanoke Island...
Last week President Conant noted with satisfaction that the university had been acquitted of bias, told the committee it had exaggerated the misunderstanding, announced the Harvard Corporation had decided it would be "unwise and impractical" to reinstate the ousted instructors...
...Bias. When America, able Jesuit weekly, announced a contest to discover anti-Catholic bias in the U. S. press (TIME, March 7), the Christian Register (Unitarian) snapped: "The Roman Catholic Church represents the most powerful organization of bias anywhere to be found." Said Christian Century, liberal Protestant weekly, "There is something very dangerous about the doctrine that only the truth has a right to be heard." Said the Churchman (Episcopal): "A large section of the American press is having a bad case of jitters over the attitude of the Roman Church. ... It is a pitiful exhibition...
Father Toomey, who did most of the work on the Bias Contest, is a zealous, grey-haired priest, born 48 years...
Philadelphia, who fought in the World War, did some advertising work before beginning, in 1921, the long, hard studies of a Jesuit. Ordained in 1931, he was assigned to America's staff four years ago. Believing that much of the U. S. press is biased, or uninformed, on Catholic matters, Father Toomey has in recent months written four articles on "propaganda" in the press. Last month, before the Bias Contest ended, he helped set up a Catholic organization to deal with erring editors...