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Does TIME not err in announcing over and over in several recent issues [TIME, March 6 et seq. ] that Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt has resigned from the D. A. R. because it did not allow Marian Anderson to appear at Constitution Hall...
...TIME did err in one of these seven points: it was not Harvardman Allen but a member of the orchestra who made the gloomy, ungrammatical remark, "Things aren't like they used t be." For the rest, TIME does not take back what it said...
Businessmen habitually err, however, in regarding inventory size alone as an indication of business conditions. For, if demand is large, big inventories can readily be absorbed. But if production continues up regardless of demand, even small inventories may prove excessive. Last week a few economists were claiming that such is the case now. Economics Statistics, Inc. (of Manhattan) held that soaring industrial production, following last spring's depletion of inventories, had once more over-replenished inventories-enough to account for the current slump in industrial production and stock prices...
...handsome tribute to Mr. Murphy and a serious discussion of his qualifications to succeed the late Justice Cardozo. Excerpts: "When Murphy was judge of the recorder's court he kept a little cardboard placard behind his desk where only he could see it. It read: If you must err, err on the side of leniency...
Perhaps TIME editors err in failing to translate telegrams into lower case. Reader Grant's LIFETIME (TIME, Jan. 31) may have meant LifeTime, not lifetime...