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...consumers are still thirsting for more. No less than 14% of U.S. families plan to buy a car next year; 8% of the nation's non-farm families have tentative plans to buy houses -more, in both cases, than in 1952. Businessmen got the same sort of sounding. Dun & Bradstreet polled 1,277 key manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, found that 61% of them expect last-quarter sales to top the same period in 1951. One hopeful bellwether: mail-order and chain-store sales in July were 8% ahead of last year...
...Corpse. Along with sales, prices also had begun edging up once more. Dun & Bradstreet's index of wholesale food prices showed the sharpest increase (1.6%) in 17 months. The Government's cost-of-living index was still 11% above its June 1950 level, when the Korean war began. In the face of these signs that inflation was far from dead, neither Republicans nor Democrats in Congress seemed willing to take a chance, in an election year, on killing controls.* This week the Defense Production Act, with its train of OPS, NPA and other business controls, seemed certain...
...help pick additional faculty members (and a new dean to replace retiring Dean Sperry), the Harvard Corporation appointed a board of distinguished Protestant clergymen, including Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary, Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun and Presbyterian Henry Sloane Coffin. Harvard's hope: to make the school a stronghold of ecumenical Christian education among the clergy, a means for correcting what President Conant's committee called "religious illiteracy" among undergraduates...
...Americans who run it call it Beggars' Island. Koje is a rocky, dun-colored dollop, 20 miles southwest of Pusan in the Korea Strait. On this island, in a cluster of barbed-wire compounds, the U.N. keeps its war prisoners-110,000 North Koreans and 17,000 Chinese-plus about 40,000 civilian internees...
...Conference's sixth consecutive Rose Bowl drubbing has led a few West Coast coaches to mutter against bowl games in general, joining the investigating group of college presidents who have already put bowls high on their "evil" list. The president's group, under the American Council of Education, the Dun and Bradstreet of the academic world, will try to force de-emphasis by lowering the academic rating of schools that engage in recruiting practices and in exhibition games...