Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died Dr. Charles E. Fuller, 80, Baptist minister turned radio evangelist whose sermons reached 10 million weekly in the 1940s; of heart disease; in Pasadena, Calif. "If you are not in Jesus Christ, you are a child ot Sa-tan!" cried Fuller on his Old-Fashioned Revival Hour, and at the peak of his career the message was beamed out every Sunday on 900 stations across the U.S. Though his popularity faded in recent years, he could still be heard on some 500 stations, many of which will continue to broadcast his sermons on tape...
Like clothes and art, stocks are also subject to fads, fashions and fancies. There was a big play in uranium shares in the 1940s, in utilities in the 1950s, in airlines early in the 1960s. Last year fashion focused on computer leasing and computer-software manufacturers, supplemental air carriers, electronics and office-equipment firms. Some of them quadrupled and quintupled in price within a few months. Now most of them have calmed down, and new vogues may be beginning. But how is the individual investor to know what those vogues will be? Though there is no sure answer, most people...
...they boast that they are now recruiting 100 deserters a month, they have until now never been able to produce more than one or two on any single occasion. U.S. Army headquarters in Heidelberg has persistently dismissed their claims, lists no more than 365 missing G.I.s since the late 1940s. In Japan, where the 36,000 American troops are regularly augmented by thousands of G.I.s on R & R (rest and recreation) from Viet Nam, pacifist and peace groups have had no better luck. Indeed, U.S. desertions worldwide, including the Viet Nam command, are running on a par with the Korean...
Married. Harry James, 51, top trumpeter and big-band leader in the 1940s and early '50s, now making the Las Vegas scene swing; and Joan Boyd, 27, former Vegas showgirl; he for the third time (the others: Singer Louise Tobin, Actress Betty Grable), she for the second; in Reno...
This week newsreels surrender completely to television. The movie houses in which they are shown have dwindled to less than 2,000 this year from over 10,000 in the late 1940s. While some newsreels rented for as much as $1,000 a week in their heyday, theater managers now pay about $50 or less. The managers find it more profitable to schedule an intermission instead of a newsreel and give patrons a chance to buy popcorn and 200 candy bars...