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...born Herb Caen (rhymes with reign) has long enjoyed the title "Mr. San Francisco," and one of the most faithful followings of any local columnist in the U.S. (TIME, July 1). On his three-block walk in 1950, Caen took with him 10,000 to 15,000 readers. The upward-struggling Chronicle (circ. 190,045), which has run six columnists in Caen's space without filling the gap, hopes that Herb's homecoming will draw an extra 30,000 circulation and regain some of the advertising that followed him to the Examiner (circ...
Potatoes were cheaper, tomatoes were cheaper-in fact, nearly all food was cheaper-but no matter how it juggled the figures, the Bureau of Labor Statistics came up last week with the sad news that the Government's Consumer Price Index inched upward in September for the 13th month in a row. The new mark was one-tenth of 1% over August, for a record high...
...slanting set of Orientals' eyes cannot be entirely changed by minor surgery, but it becomes less conspicuous after the eyelid operation; by exposing more of the eyeballs, the operation makes the eyes seem rounder and bigger, also forces the eyelashes from slanting downward to pointing upward. Within a couple of days, Tomiko was telling her friends: "You've got to go, too. It's so simple, it's almost unbelievable...
...that racketing, rocketing free half of the world that has otherwise never had it so good, inflation vexes more people, weakens more economies and nags at more governments than any other problem except Communism itself. In the U.S. the cost of living, inching upward through twelve straight months of humming productivity, has reached a record high of 121 (the 1948-49 average: 100). In Australia the whirling chase of money after goods has doubled prices in ten years. India's prices have leaped so crazily (wholesale food prices were up 54% in two years) that the government...
...poverty on the part of millions has become one of the most powerful forces in soth century society. This "revolution of rising expectations," as Economist Staley called it, has only intensified the struggle to seek a more abundant life. In India, for example, the market for bicycles is booming upward at 30% a year, while shoe sales are rising only 4%. Explained one village bicycle salesman: "The villagers are getting lazy. They don't want to walk any more; they want bicycles." While modern communications have whetted consumer appetites in Pakistan as in Peoria, the danger is that nations...