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...Apparently an improvement, MARCH OF TIME'S changed program has increased its audience one-third in the last 13 weeks. But TIME would welcome first-hand answers to Reader O'Connell's question...
...second explanation lies in TIME'S unique system of writer-shuttling, under which TIME'S editors are constantly going overseas to get the first-hand feel of the news-and TIME'S correspondents are constantly shuttling home to take a turn as editors and give TIME'S writing the freshness and authenticity of their on-the-spot experiences...
Last week, for instance, just as the editors started to work on this issue, Senior Editor Wertenbaker, head of the Foreign News and World Battlefronts sections, stepped off the Atlantic Clipper from England-where he had spent five weeks renewing his first-hand knowledge of what Britain and Britain's leaders are thinking and doing...
...their own, or my efforts here will continue to meet pairs of uncomprehending eyes. No one ever learned to like jazz simply by reading about it, and today I want to call attention to the various excellent opportunities there are now of hearing jazz on the radio. Of course, first-hand experience is the ideal, but it is not always possible to see a good jazz performance in person, so that the radio becomes the obvious substitute...
...pressure was fast rising that might well force the British Government to do its bidding. This was the pressure of British public opinion. The British people in general were not experts on India. They could not judge the Indian issues either from first-hand experience or deep scholarship. They did not judge the issues from the standpoint of vested interests in India. But the British Government could ill afford to ignore their massed judgment, inexpert and instinctive as it might be. And, whatever the experts and officials and vested interests were saying last week, the British people were calling...