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Missouri's O. K. Armstrong put his finger on the big flaw in Truman's case against the press. Said Armstrong: "If we should take the whole amount of the 60% increase on the second-class group, it would only be $24 million. Stack that up against the total deficit of $550 million."* The House ended up with a bill calling for a 30% increase in second-class rates (spread over three years) on both newspapers and magazines, must now confer with the Senate. Most newspapermen and magazine men agreed that this increase was fair enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Postage Due? | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

Moses has one major flaw. By page 505, the waxy, unctuous prose with which Novelist Asch has Simonized the King James version will leave many an eye glazed, not with sanctity but with sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lawgiver | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

Students at the Union have been complaining this week about the low separating partitions which have turned the trays into a failure. William A. Heaman, manager of the dining halls, admitted that there have been criticisms of this one tragic flaw, but added that many men have praised the efficient design of the new product...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Students Critical of Circular Trays | 8/16/1951 | See Source »

Should patch a wall t'expel the winter's flaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Last Plays by G.B.S. | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...Mill. Like every other procedure designed for this purpose, the Kahn test had a flaw: it occasionally gave "false positive" reactions, indicating syphilis where there was none. Many researchers were content to dismiss these few false positives as run-of-the-mill defects. But not Kahn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Signals In the Blood | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

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