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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hail of Complaints. As a result of the Congress Party's vacillation, India's Socialist Party, though still small, is gradually gaining members, many from disillusioned Congress ranks. A typical recent convert was Sarangdhar Das, an engineer, who summed up much of India's present resentments when he described a visit to his native province: "The villagers were no longer exulting in freedom. Instead, they came at me with a hail of complaints -where is our cloth, where is our food, where is our fuel? I urged them to plant trees for fuel. They pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Uncertain Freedom | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Last week, 8,000 Chicagoans crowded under Ravinia's huge tent awning (once a B-29 hangar; Ravinia's wooden pavilion burned down last May) to hear the result of all the cooking and testing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Master Cooking | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...dryly dissonant Quartet No. 14. That over, the Budapest retired, and the Paganini played Milhaud's more melodic Quartet No. 15. Then, while chamber-music lovers waited uneasily, the Budapest returned, sat down alongside the Paganini, and the eight players played the two quartets simultaneously. The result: critics found it a superb feat of musicianship, but most listeners looked as if they were hearing an important speech in a foreign language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Master Cooking | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Last week Wall Streeters took a speculative look at the slump that had finally arrived, and decided it was not living up to their gloomy expectations. Result: the market's seventh bullish week in the last eight. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.15 points to 179.07, only a shade below its 1949 high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Spotty | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Some Britons once firmly believed that a man could cure a cough by pulling a hair from his head, putting it between two pieces of buttered bread, and feeding it to a dog with the words: "Good luck, you bound. May you be sick and I be sound." Expected result: the dog trotted off coughing, the man recovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Handy Hexes | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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