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IF businessmen studied the new autos with a keen eye, they also looked long at another economic factor to be reckoned with in the months to come: inflation. Everyone hears a lot about inflation; the talk is fraught with semantic difficulties because everyone has a different definition of the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 25, 1958 | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

Educate Everybody. The report describes the other jaw of the paradox-that although a necessarily complex society often breeds mediocrity, it desperately needs brilliant performance. The U.S.'s need of top-level scientists and highly skilled teachers is obvious now, the authors note. The only occupation for which the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Pursuit of Excellence | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

The heroine of this surf opera is 19-year-old Jordan Moore, a button-bright blonde girl who dreams of carving a career niche in the great stone face of Manhattan. When she hears that the "mass media" set spends its summers on Phoenix Island, Jordan signs on for a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surf Opera | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

For Sergeant Kolodzi the war has reached a harrowing personal climax. He is a soldier of the Wehrmacht, fighting on his home ground where his mother and his girl still live, where his father, killed by partisans, is buried. Kolodzi knows the war is finished, that the smart thing to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soldiers Must Die | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Bloomgarden sometimes snaps up a show the first time he hears it. "When Meredith Willson telephoned and asked me to produce The Music Man," he recalls, "I said to myself, 'Who the hell is Willson?' It had been so long since I'd heard him on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Good Pickings | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

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