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Last week the Displaced Persons Commission reported that the 80th Congress' Wiley-Revercomb law was just what Harry Truman had called it-"a pattern of discrimination and intolerance wholly inconsistent with the American sense of justice." The law, the commission declared, was "all but unworkable." Because of its restrictions, only 2,499 had been admitted in the first six months of its operation (it was scheduled to admit 205,000 in two years). The law excluded thousands of Jews and Catholics who fled from postwar pogroms and Communist coups. As written, the law also required job assurance for adolescents...
Although he is not a TIME subscriber, Uncle Charlie follows a pattern of reading common to many TIME families. He awaits his turn. The family subscriber is a niece, Mrs. Earl Smith, who lives nearby. She began reading TIME at the local library, liked it, and became a subscriber. A tall, handsome, grey-haired woman, whose husband is deputy sheriff, Mrs. Smith told Wylie that she turns to Science and Medicine first -partly because her son, who is away at school, is particularly interested in those subjects. Then she reads National Affairs, and so on through each issue...
...Miler Ingvar Bengtsson, and a baritone sang The Star-Spangled Banner. The crowd sat back to wait for Slykhuis and Bengtsson. No foreigner had ever won the Wanamaker Mile, but now that the mighty Gil Dodds had retired, the invaders seemed to have a fine chance to break the pattern...
...union had demanded the increase for 30,000 workers in the New Bedford-Fall River area, which traditionally sets the northern wage pattern in cotton. (But not for such basic industries as autos and steel.) Arbitrator Douglas V. Brown, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said no. In professorial tones, he warned that the industry faced "a decrease of an insufficient increase in demand." (Translation: business isn't very good...
...spring catalogue (and sales were brisk). In groceries, housewives were buying flour in 25-lb. bags that had sewn-in drawstrings; the buyer had only to unstitch a seam and she had a gaily printed cotton apron. Across the U.S., thousands of women, following instructions in special pattern books, were turning similar dress-printed bags into clothes, curtains, tablecloths, napkins, quilts and slipcovers...