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Out of it all came a diagnosis that was news to no one: the theater suffers from a tangled complex of ills, overwhelmingly economic, with most theater people ready to put the blame on the other fellow. Chief causes of high ticket prices: the high costs of theater rentals, sets...
Secretary Brannan is willing to "do something for beef" and for just about every other farm product in the book (TIME, April 18). With the Hope-Aiken Act set to function in 1950, providing for a lower and more flexible level of price supports, he has advanced a counterplan to...
Something of this same shoring up and pulling down was going on in the nation's foreign policy last week. In Europe the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff talked things over with their Atlantic pact allies and announced that there would be some kind of military organization by 1950...
One of the main props of Juan Perón's popularity has been his policy of holding retail food prices at artificially low levels. Last week the prop was unceremoniously yanked away. Argentines awoke to find the costs of basic foodstuffs up as much as 100% overnight.
At their best, Lloyd's gags have the simplicity and spontaneity of growing grass. They emerge almost imperceptibly from next to nothing and a moment later become a blooming hayfield of blundering frustrations. At their wildest they have the towering improbability of Jack's beanstalk. His props are...