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...assembled Scientists heard that everything about their faith was getting better & better. Pointing out that Founder Eddy had forbidden "public numbering" of the membership, the board of director annual message noted that "in every year since 1902 [when the church reported gain of 2,784 members], the net gain in . . . membership has been greater than in that year . . . The number of branches of the Mother Church has continued to increase, there having been a gain of 38 in the last year...
...will probably profit by its expansion. But the Council will also benefit. Since the introduction of the elective system, the Council, as we have pointed out before, has tended to forget its main advisory function for activities seem, perhaps, newsworthy operations more likely to gain votes for members...
...recognizing Communist China last Jan. 6, Britain hoped to protect her huge commercial stake there. Some British optimists also hoped to gain a political advantage; they thought that Mao Tse-tung might become another Tito. In the House of Commons last week, ailing Ernie Bevin sadly dismissed the second hope: "I think Mao Tse-tung has been receiving advice from Moscow-his is the same kind of attitude as Moscow...
...been listening to the huge resounding and romantic symphonies of Hector Berlioz, and trying to decide just how good "this Frenchman" was. Today 81 years after his death, detractors of Berlioz still scorn him as a crude noisemaker who marshaled whole regiments of instruments and singers to gain his fantastically emotional effects, although most of them will grudgingly admit that he contributed some new colors to the palette of orchestration. His fervent admirers, even those who are troubled at the ease with which he passes from the sublime to the banal, claim that Berlioz was one of the giants...
...major networks has dropped from 38 to 31. Might the decline be developing into a trend? Next week two more soap operas, Today's Children and Light of the World, will slip off the air. But listeners need not be too hasty about cheering a clear gain. The replacement for the soap operas is a new giveaway, sponsored by General Mills and called Live Like a Millionaire (weekdays, 2:30 p.m., NBC). Its gimmick: children are invited to bring their "talented" parents to the studio to compete for a weekly $1,000 prize and free trips...