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TIME characteristically describes ''The Fifth Amendment" as a "Debate" in its index, when it is actually a one-sided rationalization of what are apparently TIME'S views. Why not really make a debate of this vital issue by giving as much space to Dean Griswold's views as to those of Williams...
...Consumer Price Index rose 0.3% in July, to a 1955 high of 114.7. The index stood exactly halfway between the high (115.2) and the low (114.2) for the last 21 months. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported average weekly take-home pay up $3.84 (to $69.84) over a year ago (see BUSINESS...
Next, Wouk went to work (at $15 a week) for a cigar-chomping "czar of gagwriters" who ran a joke factory supplying gags to Fanny Brice, Lou Holtz, Eddie Cantor et al. Wouk's job was to clip and card-index old jokes and to clean up the off-color items. Two years later he was hired as a radio gagwriter by Fred Allen. His special chore for the Allen-program: the "People You Didn't Expect to Meet" interview, for which he unearthed weirdies, e.g., a goldfish doctor, a worm salesman and "the man who inserts...
Roses on Wall Street. On the strength of all the rosy reports, the stock market, after a four-week pause to adjust itself to tightened credit (TIME, Aug. 29), bulled up again. Metals, railroads and building materials strode ahead, and the Dow-Jones industrial index closed the week at 463.70, a climb of more than 10 points for the week...
...Army is glad to pass: the sardine-packing of 3,000 or more men into the hull of a single ship for months on end. So the Naval Medical Research Institute at Bethesda is crowding mice into little boxes and checking the working of their adrenal glands (an index to stress). Purpose: to learn how and why their "vitality and viability" go down in a crowd. Other Bethesda specialties...