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...gospel according to John provoked such outrage that it seemed the only atonement for the Beatles would be to tonsure their Shaggy locks and turn them into hair shirts. "We are more popular than Jesus Christ now," Beatle John Lennon had pronounced, moving scores of disk jockeys to ban their records. Now John has received some expert support. Richard Cardinal Gushing, 71, preached in Boston's Holy Cross Cathedral: "The Beatles are better known than Christianity throughout the world." His point: Missions must be strengthened in a world in which Christians are outnumbered. Was that what John meant...
John Lennon's comments about the relative popularity of Jesus Christ and the Beatles (TIME, Aug. 12) proved less than consequential except in the South. Kids and disk jockeys built bonfires of Beatles' records and artifacts, and 20 Texas radio stations maintained a Beatle boycott. During the Beatles' only personal appearance below the Mason-Dixon line, in Memphis, a Christian Youth Rally was scheduled simultaneously. The free-admission protest exhibition drew more than 8,000 people; the Beatles (in two performances) pulled 20,128 at $5.50 a head...
...believes that the Pentagon's reassuring statements about UFOs are designed to hoodwink the public into supposing that they are psychological, meteoric, or astral in origin. Nor is sinister Air Force activity confined to the U.S. "What," he asks, "was the mysterious substance that dribbled from a crippled disk over Brazil in 1954?" The Brazilian air force gathered it up and hid it away. (It may have been tin.) The Australian, French, and Indian air forces are also in cahoots with the U.S. Even the Kremlin is involved in a secret pact with the infidel against the UFOs...
...lead in the Green Hornet and dutifully goes home every morning to his wife and child. Yet he really operates during the witching hours. From 11:30 p.m. until 5:30 a.m. five days a week (and until 7:30 a.m. the sixth), he is the Manhattan-based disk jockey of CBS's Music 'til Dawn, sponsored by American. Hall's silky phrasing and boudoir baritone earn him $40,500 a year, are emulated (on producer's orders) by the eight other Music 'til Dawn deejays...
...with CBS President Frank Stanton, discovered that Stanton was "something of a night owl himself." CBS and American jointly formulated the music show. Its records were to be, in Smith's words, "on a high, not necessarily highbrow, level." The commercials were to be soft-sell, the disk jockeys positively pianissimo, and everything uniform nationwide...