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Your comments on "Questions & Answers" (RUSSIA, p. 13, Dec. 28 issue) are so disingenuous as to make one wonder if sometimes you may not distort the news to suit your purposes. Making a headline that utterly belies the contents of a news-item is an old trick in dishonest journalism. Who, outside of an editor of TIME, could consider the answers that Tchitcherin gave to the questions put before him anything but the essence of frankness, openness and the very opposite of "Machiavellian?" What could be less diplomatic than the answer to the second question, which says in effect...
...Earl of Birkenhead's Law of Property. Admirers of Charles Dickens have often chuckled at his celebrated legal caricature, the suit of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, which like time itself went on forever to the enrichment of generations of barristers and the utter ruin of their clients...
...them all tell stories. One story was written by Deems Taylor, jazz-appreciating classicist ? the story of circus day in a one-cylinder town. The other story went deeper, or bravely tried to. It was by rhapsodic George Gershwin, to whom jazz comes as readily as a new suit to a chamelon. It was of a murder in a Harlem speakeasy: love, passion, hate and a dark gal gone wrong. Its dramatic hinges creaked; it was sung and nearly drowned out. For both scores one Ferdie Grofe did the instrumentation and was highly praised. Of rotund Paul Whiteman...
...publicity man is to emphasize favorable news for his clients, and to suppress unfavorable news. Such a man renders no service to the public interested in the truth. Publicity is a blatant fraud upon the public, and the publicity agent commits an outrage when he colors news to suit his client's wishes"-James Wright Brown, Publisher of Editor and Publisher...
...Author. It was in 1921 that this young Harvard man, John (Roderigo) Dos Passos, first made a splash in the literary puddle with Three Soldiers, a realistic book about the War, a book that made war look too nasty to suit certain parties, although others looked upon it and recognized the ugly face of a monster they had met. Since then Mr. Dos Passos has wandered into poetry (A Pushcart at the Curb) and into essays (Rosinante to the Road Again) as well as continuing in the well-beaten track of the novel...