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Enclosed find $1 for Joe Majczek. Let contributions of other citizens help bring back to Joe at least a partial faith in U.S. justice...
Planes on the Line. Chinese hoped that other U.S. help, recently announced in Washington, would also have a bite to it. They wondered. As a partial answer to critics, Washington had just revealed a top-secret agreement, signed in 1945, under which the Chinese had been promised 1,071 transport and military planes. Most of these planes had already been delivered. But a quarter of them had arrived in no condition to fly. Another third had become useless for lack of parts for repairs. In August 1946, the whole delivery program had been suspended for ten months when...
...news had to be added up and a balance struck "to point out what the news means." Said the prospectus: "TIME gives both sides, but clearly indicates which side it believes to have the stronger position." (For a period of partial heresy from this sound doctrine, see below...
What's the difference between impartiality and fairness? The responsible journalist is "partial" to that interpretation of the facts which seems to him to fit things as they are. He is fair in not twisting the facts to support his view, in not suppressing the facts that support a different view...
Last fortnight Rines changed his black tie for a red and grey striped one. He thought he had won a partial victory. A jury in the grey courthouse* at Dedham, Mass, returned verdicts against two of the doctors by finding that they had performed their duties "in such a negligent manner" that it caused Mrs. Rines's injury and death. Damages assessed against the doctors totaled $15,000. Verdicts were returned in favor of three other physicians; the cases against the three nurses and the hospital had been dropped...