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Like many other corporate commanders, Rex Humbard dresses in expensive suits, commutes to his office in a Cadillac and jets to out-of-town appointments in the company plane. His Ohio-based conglomerate issues securities, reports annual revenues of $8,000,000 and has assets worth some $30 million. Yet Humbard, 53, is no ordinary businessman. He is a guitar-picking, down-home evangelist (TIME, May 17, 1971) with a following of 25 million weekly television viewers on 400 stations in the U.S. and foreign countries...
...Happy Humphrey trades Jake Kertuffel a handful of lima beans (from which a money tree is supposed to grow) for the Model T in which the Kertuffel clan has sent its scion into the city. Ironically, a money tree springs up, and the Kertuffels buy a Cadillac with some of their money. Happy Humphrey, in a jealous rage, chops down the tree, but goes to jail for trying to pass the eight dollar bills the tree was producing when he killed...
...what local Culture Critic Rolf Kaltenborn calls "the worst art per square inch of any place in the world"; a brand new Rolls-Royce dealership that has sold 35 cars since its opening in West Palm Beach last September; and a mayor who campaigns, usually unopposed, in a mere Cadillac...
...tired of sitting around my big expensive living room. My new Cadillac bored me. And I didn't know what the hell was right or wrong." Joseph Wambaugh, 36, the author of The New Centurions and The Blue Knight, is back on the beat as a detective with the Los Angeles police department after a six-month absence. Wambaugh's bestsellers about policemen have earned him more money than he wants to say, certainly more than his 13-year cop career. He still plans to write on his off-hours, but mainly, he says, "I want to stay...
...Fitz sent his regrets, saying that he had a prior commitment in California. And none of the other 16 members of the national executive board showed up either. But the middle-echelon Teamsters packed the house. Looking tanned and as fit as ever, Hoffa bounced out of a red Cadillac with his wife Jo, obviously enjoying the movie-premiere spectacle of TV lights and photographers. He disclaimed any rift with his "old friend Fitz," but when asked by a news reporter if the restriction on his release amounted to a doublecross, Hoffa said, "Nobody knows what happened, but it wasn...