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...radio audience. Currently, 1,500,000 are enrolled-500,000 more than the Adventists' total world membership. Still, Evangelist Richards and his staff are not content. He and the King's Heralds plan a round-the-world campaign this summer, with the emphasis on Africa. A fortnight ago, the Voice hooked up with seven radio stations in Japan. Says Adventist Richards, who cheerfully runs his $1,000,000 operation on a salary of $65 a week: "Brother, you just wait. We'll keep on growing & growing until we've reached everyone...
...fortnight ago in Tokyo's Popeye pachinko parlor, an employee stopped one Kaichi Daijo in the midst of a winning streak. Outraged, Daijo stabbed the employee to death. Daijo was in jail last week, charged with murder. At the vic tim's funeral services appeared a large wreath of paper flowers inscribed: "An inch of our heart goes with you." It was from the boys at the Popeye parlor...
...Last fortnight he was in Innsbruck, Austria, lecturing to students on writing. A few days later he was in Munich, followed by a train of young people. A few days after that, he was in Switzerland. Wherever he went, he talked-in English, French or German-bouncing in & out of chairs, filling his young audience's ears with an endless stream of neat, witty, slightly pedantic but somehow most exciting talk...
...being fulfilled by any Protestant church . . . We need your ministry in a preaching mission in our great American cities from coast to coast, and in the huge gatherings in conventions of leaders of labor, of education, of industry ... in a spiritual ministry carried directly to a whole nation." Fortnight ago, after a long time thinking the offer over, Pastor Evans accepted...
...Australia's John Landy, who ran the mile in a sensational 4:02.1 a fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 29) and turned in another sizzler last week (4:02.8) on a windy, concrete-hard track. After the race, he confidently announced: "I intend to run a four-minute mile or better this season and then retire from competition...