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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subscribing families and ask you, please, to "sit for your portraits." We made one such survey in 1943 - but we know there have been a lot of changes since then. For example, the average TIME reader today is a little younger than the average TIME reader of five years ago (this is mostly because a lot of veterans are now reading TIME; men who got to know and like TIME overseas). And of course the average income of the TIME reader has gone up (today it is over $7,600 a year - more than double the national average...
Hardly Trying. As the Southerners kept Senate business at a standstill, Senate and House committees listened coldly to the Administration's explanations of Harry Truman's anti-inflation program. Ex-OPAdministrator Paul Porter, who had been re-enlisted by the White House fortnight ago, was the chief performer before the House Banking and Currency Committee. His main point: roll back prices to November 1947 levels on such items as meat, dairy products, clothing, steel...
...Good Spot." How did the spy ring operate? Elizabeth Bentley detailed her furtive meetings with a young bureaucrat named William W. Remington. In 1942, she said, Remington was "in a good spot" with the War Production Board, where "he was dealing with aircraft production figures." (Until six weeks ago, when he was suspended, Remington was chairman of a Department of Commerce committee which collated secret information from many Government offices, including the Atomic Energy Commission. His committee's job: to determine what materials and goods should and should not be exported to Russia...
...Wallace did not notice it. Afterwards he said blandly: "I would say that the Communists are the closest things to the early Christian martyrs. But I can truthfully say that the Communists have not come to me, as such. I saw one hurriedly in a railroad station not long ago. I don't recall his name. I told him I believed in progressive capitalism. That stopped him and I haven't heard from the Communists since...
...settled down in Colorado, crossed the high wire 86 times in all. His children grew up; his wife died. The world forgot him. He was old and arthritic. Three years ago, hungry for applause, he looked up at the high wire still hanging rustily across the canyon, decided to walk it once again...