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Getting in Tune. Dedicated worshipers are making it easier for others to pray along with them. Continental Airlines distributes cards containing a grace-before-meals along with its lunch and dinner trays. Los Angeles Disk Jockey Dick Whittinghill of KMPC calls up his teen-ager listeners between records, asks them to join him in reciting a close cousin of the New York State Regents' Prayer: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon thee, and we beg thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers, our loved ones and our country.'' Hollywood Psychiatrist Bernice Harker. a Methodist...
...squared-off Dauphine but is roomier and quieter. It also costs more ($1,400 in France for the R-8, v. $1,000 for the Dauphine). Speeding to 80 m.p.h. on a 48-h.p. engine, the R-8 is faster than the Dauphine, has four sports-car-type disk brakes...
...working out phrases ("naked reverse," "a whole host of tacklers") to describe the action for his listeners. At 44, Husing tired of the whirl, decided. "Why shouldn't I make a quarter million dollars a year?" and for a decade was one of radio's highest paid disk jockeys until he suffered a brain tumor in 1954, and, as a friend said, "just seemed to fade away...
...worthy classics. What the Swedes really needed, felt Thompson, was a competing station offering an easier U.S. blend of pop music, commercials and more news. Dallas Tycoon Thompson decided to provide it. Buying a 3,300-ton German coastal freighter, Thompson renamed it Bon Jour, recruited deckhands and a disk jockey, surrounded them with broadcasting equipment at a total estimated cost of $700,000. He anchored the Bon Jour a bit more than three miles off Stockholm in international waters, put 20-kw. Radio Nord on the air 18 months...
...municipally owned and supported station). De Koven has resolutely banished all commercial sponsors, buys all the records he uses. He claims-and so far no one has felt the urge to challenge him -that he plays more baroque and rococo music (hence his coinage-"barococo") than any other disk jockey in the world...