Word: unfairnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since TIME has never noticed our TV program during any of the six years it has been on the air, doesn't it seem unfair that you printed John Crosby's 1950 comments in your Aug. 20 issue? Time makes many changes that TIME did not observe. For the past three years ours has been a summer show, and each year we have finished our series with a higher rating than the show we replaced...
Biting the Hand. Ever since Lawyer Butler came out of South Bend, Ind. to become Democratic chairman, he has persistently cried that the press−"the one-party press"−is unfair to Democrats. But his wail of "sabotage" against CBS was a case of biting off the hand that had been feeding him. CBS news coverage has been more than friendly to Butler's cause, and the punditing of its top commentators, Edward R. Murrow and Eric Sevareid, has been sharply slanted toward the Democratic side. It was CBS that, out of its own pocket, set up hourlong...
...that will seem attractive to owners and trainers. It is no easy job to organize day after day of races that will give bettors a fair shake. Individual owners, naturally, seldom see eye to eye with a man dedicated to the proposition that no horse should ever have an unfair advantage, that no horseman should ever get a fast shuffle. Only recently, one well-heeled habitue of Belmont's Turf and Field Club was heard to mutter: "I used to think I hated Roosevelt; then I saw the Jamaica condition book...
...Unfair Advantage. In Springfield, Ill., Lester D. Plummer asked a judge to annul his month-old marriage on the ground that he was so "emotionally upset" by the divorce from his first wife that he didn't know what he was doing when he remarried...
...bricks arrive at building sites battered and bruised, soon fall to pieces. Indoors, the Russians put in hardwood floors while construction is still under way; by the time work is finished, floors are gouged and pitted. But Smith tempered his criticism with the reminder that "it's unfair to relate their standards to our standards. The Russians are intelligent people with an insuperable housing shortage. There's been a tremendous raising of standard of housing. They want to learn how to do better...