Word: 20s
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Miracle Valley. Born in Arkansas, Allen was converted from Methodism to Pentecostalism in his early 20s, when he heard a woman evangelist preach in a country church, eventually became a minister with the Assemblies of God. By 1953, he was already concentrating on faith healing-and prospering. Three years later, the Assemblies of God dismissed him for failing to appear at a church trial resulting from a Tennessee drunken-driving arrest, but Allen hardly seemed to care. The same year, he organized his own Miracle Revival Fellowship, which claims to be nondenominational, but has become in effect an independent sect...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Billy Wilder's magnificent farce, Some Like It Hot (1959), stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as innocents of the '20s chased by Chicago Mobster George Raft and Florida Millionaire Joe E. Brown...
They are usually high baritones who take time off in their late 20s or 30s to ac quire a tenor's range and build up their voice. But careers move so fast now adays that few singers can afford to interrupt them. The result, says Melchior, is that "the breed has practically vanished." Most of the tenors who attempt these heroic roles are a bit jugendlich (youthful-sounding). Meantime, great dramatic sopranos like Birgit Nilsson are Isoldes in search of Tristans, and some of Wagner's finest music is scant ed in the repertory...
Boomtown, U.S.A. The trouble is that the citizenry has long lived in the -vicinity of vice. In the roaring '20s, with thousands at work in the surrounding coal mines and thousands more employed in the railroad yards, there was no shortage of customers for the brothels and horse rooms. The city's gamy reputation drew rakehells from as far north as Chicago, 156 miles away. Oldtimers recall the days when not a single house was a home in the six-block Tenderloin along the Wabash River...
Even for the well-to-do and articulate citizen, getting such care involves an obstacle course. He is, in effect, challenged to take out the right kind of insurance, probably in his 20s or 30s, and certainly years before he expects to need it. Then he is challenged to find the right doctor. For none of these choices are there any reliable buyers' guides. At successive times in his health history, three major components of care?doctors, hospitals and insurance?will be simultaneously involved...