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...When I was co-captain of the crew, we beat Navy, which was pretty good going, and were all set to face Cornell. Spec ran a story about how we were going to race Cornell and it didn't say anything about our beating Navy until the very last paragraph...
...would read approximately as follows: "Incident. In study hall today, George whispered frequently and created a disturbance by various antics which attracted the attention of the pupils sitting near him." This is a brief, clear statement of what took place. . . . The interpretation can well be placed in a separate paragraph carefully labeled thus: "Interpretation. George seems to be a boy who wants much attention from other pupils, particularly girls. He manages to get some of the attention he craves, but his classmates seem more annoyed and disgusted than amused...
This letter is prompted by a paragraph in TIME [Aug. 6]: "Ken Murayama, a Japanese newsman, recently captured in the Philippines, wrote that Japan was ripe for surrender...
Under President Truman's signature, as required by the law, a routine quarterly report on Lend-Lease was sent to Congress last week. Newsmen pounced on one pregnant paragraph. It said, in part: "If a debt approaching the magnitude of $42 billion were to be added to the enormous financial obligations that foreign governments have incurred for war purposes . . . it would have a disastrous effect upon our trade with the United Nations and hence upon production and employment at home...
...President's report contained a concluding paragraph much more significant than the one newsmen made into headlines. It said: "The attainment of the long-range security and economic objectives of the United States and the other United Nations is a task of the greatest importance if we are not to lose the victory. . . . We shall seek ... to achieve settlements . . . which will best attain these objectives...