Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fourth R. Sunday morning, naturally enough, is devotional. In the earlier hours, radio religion ranges from the evangelical thunder of Pasadena's Rev. Herbert Armstrong ("Catastrophic happenings will soon shake the world!") to the fundamentalist tenets of Grand Rapids' Dr. Richard De Haan ("Read the Bible closely and never out of context . . ."). Television's religious note is more often interdenominational and inspirational. This week Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking) and his wife devoted 30 filmed minutes (CBS) to assuring viewers that an inferiority complex should not prevent financial success. The Peales told...
Stars in Jazz (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Louis Armstrong, Singer Dinah Washington...
...Armstrong Circle Theater (Tues. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Janet Blair in The Beautiful Wife...
Britain last week rolled out its first truly supersonic jet. Built by English Electric, maker of the Canberra twin-jet bomber, the new P. 1 is a stubby, delta-winged interceptor, with a double-barreled Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire power plant turning out a total of 20,000 Ibs. of thrust. All English Electric will say is that the plane can fly faster than sound in level flight, and that 20 have been ordered to short-cut the time lag between prototype and production models. At the news, most of Britain's newspapers went all out, claimed speeds...
...Louis Armstrong Sings the Blues (Victor LP). The great jazzman, his trumpet, and the voice that sounds like gravel tossed into a malted machine. There are a dozen tunes (originally recorded from 1933 to 1947), including Basin Street Blues, St. Louis Blues and Rockin' Chair, an exemplary duet with oldtime Trombonist Jack Teagarden. Other supporters: Pianists Teddy Wilson and Johnny Guarnieri, Trombonist Kid Ory, Trumpeter Bobby Hackett, Drummer Cozy Cole...