In Manhattan, CBS cleared up the six-week-old question of who would pay Senator Joe McCarthy's Fox Movietone bill by sending him a check for $6,336.99. McCarthy had hired the Fox studios to film his April 6 TV reply to Edward R. Murrow's famed See It Now analysis of his manner and methods. After McCarthy, the Aluminum Co. of America (SIN's sponsor) and Murrow had declined, CBS decided that its "policy of fairness and balance" required it to pick up the tab.
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