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Jean-Paul Sartre, France's high priest of existentialism, who suffered a left uppercut by Pravda last year, got it on the other cheek: the Vatican put all his books on the Index (Librorum Prohibit orum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Wellington P. Scott '50, secretary of the House committee, explained that the poll was being taken merely as an index of resident opinion. Nothing is definite as yet on the subject, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bendix in Basement Is Goal Of Adams Residents Petition | 11/2/1948 | See Source »

...tells of the great love between a young Manhattan clergyman and a not very moral Italian diva, and of how, putting love before sex, she nobly renounces him. As enacted by two gauche vocalists, this desire of the cloth for the flame seems about as erotic as compiling an index...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Operetta In Manhattan, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...cuts ranging from 6% to 20%. And the Department of Labor reported that food prices dropped 0.6% from mid-August to mid-September, with the result that the cost of living remained the same in mid-September as a month before, ending a steady advance of five months. (The index has still to show the effects of the newer food and clothing cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Up the Hill | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...cave-in loosened the prop under retail prices. Most Eastern food chains promptly slashed as much as 19% off some pork prices, 35% off beef. Stores in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and points west followed suit, in some cases with even bigger slashes. Dun & Bradstreet's wholesale food price index dropped to its lowest point in 14 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Healthy Pessimism | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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