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Things had been more or less quiet in Korea's prison camps ever since Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner subdued the Communist rioters on infamous Koje Island last spring (TIME, May 26 et seq.). Then came the big dispersal. Off to the mainland went 48,000 anti-Communist Koreans, to be detained in six camps there. The Communist North Koreans were left on Koje and two neighboring islands. All 20,000 Chinese prisoners were shipped to the mountainous island of Cheju. There last week, trouble flared...
Busy Oilman. Spearhead of the new U.S. policy is U.S. Oilman W. Alton Jones, president of the Cities Service Co. (TIME, Sept. 1 et seq.), who last week left for the U.S. after four weeks in Iran. He had been there as a private citizen, but it was clear that he had at least the tacit approval of the White House and the State Department. Last week, before leaving Teheran, Jones called in reporters. Said he: no deals had been made and no details discussed, but Cities Service might help Iran revive its oil industry, and might buy some Iranian...
...group of U.S. oilmen last week made a deal with Spain to wildcat for oil in the Ebro Valley, although no oil in quantity has ever been found in Spain. The group, which includes Delhi Oil and famed Geologist Everette de Golyer (TIME, April 3, 1944 et seq.), has put up $1,000,000 as a starter, while the state's Institute Nacional de Industria, has put up the same amount. If oil is found, the Spanish government will get 3%, while the American group and the Institute Nacional will split the remainder, one of the most favorable foreign...
...format that has been successful with white people." The formula has worked so well that Johnson's LIFE-like Ebony (estimated 520,000) and Quick-size Jet (estimated 210,000) have become two of the most widely read Negro magazines in the world (TIME, Oct. 1, 1945 et seq.). Two years ago when he put out Tan Confessions ("Is the Chaste Girl Chased?", "Love in the Choir Loft," "I Took My Mother's Man"), Johnson thought he had another winner in a magazine of "passion" with a purpose. Last week he admitted he was wrong...
Fabric is also a keynote this year. The ruling thought is to make wood look like cloth, cloth look like fur, and fur look like fabric. Dacron has coped the crown from rayon, nylon, et al. Poodle cloth is indistinguishable from persian lamb, and the glittering sheen of furs resembles satin more than sable...