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...interstate shipment. So Fair Traders started a new drive to amend the law to bring them into line. Prices on many items sold by other retailers would undoubtedly go up as Fair Traders cracked down on stores which had been selling at cut rates (TIME, June 4, 1951 et seq.). However, many a manufacturer with overloaded inventories has found that the only way to lure customers in was to let retailers cut prices. While consumer items remain so plentiful, Fair Traders may have a tough time making the new law stick...
...that changed after the end of World War II. Such weeklies as Britain's New Statesman and Nation and the New Republic in the U.S., or the left-wing Nation and the stoutly anti-Communist New Leader, have tangled in bitter squabbles (TIME, April 2, 1951 et seq.). The main issue: What is the proper liberal stand in the fight against Communism...
...Rhee demanded a constitutional amendment giving the people the right to choose their President. Korea's assemblymen refused to pass the amendment. Rhee countered by throwing many of his opponents in jail, sending his police to terrorize others, and threatening to dissolve the Assembly altogether (TIME, June 9, et...
...have been reformed. The popularity that stern, erect Marthe Richard had won as a heroine of the underground in two wars soon dwindled when, in 1945, as a crusading member of the Paris Municipal Council, she succeeded in closing the city's brothels (TIME, Dec. 31, 1945 et seq.). Deprived of their comfortable evenings in such ill-famed establishments as Le Sphinx and Le Poulailler, Frenchmen sneered as the once systematically supervised prostitutes took to the streets and alleys of Paris to ply their trade. The venereal disease rate soared and even Marthe was forced to confess that...
FOREIGN PAINTING: French Colorist Raoul Dufy (TIME, Nov. 8, 1948 et seq.), for a representative selection of his bright gay-spirited land- and seascapes...