Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer circulation slump that has long plagued dailies. Madison Avenue also seems to have heeded publishers' arguments that newspaper ads command greater attention than TV commercials. While TV's ad revenues have jumped $452 million in the past two years, daily newspaper advertising in the same period grew by a record $610 million, and in 1956 logged a peak total of $3.3 billion, v. TV's $1.2 billion, also a record.*Said Editor & Publisher in January: "Advertisers' 'splurging adjustment' to TV is over...
...Lesson. The bitter object lesson that brought this awakening was Argentine Dictator Juan Domingo Perón. Supported by the church at first, he later grew furious at Catholic meddling in political affairs. The strongman slapped taxes on Catholic property, tossed priests out of the country and set his bullyboys to burning churches. In today's Argentina priests who fought Perón are now the dominant force in the church...
Stout, smiling Father Sépinski, 56, who grew up in the smoky French mining town of Audun-le-tiche on the Luxembourg border, holds doctorates in theology and canon law, seems constantly to be ricocheting from one Franciscan province to another (he has visited England, Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, the Holy Land and the U.S.). At his Roman offices in the Franciscan Curia General, near St. Peter's, he rises at 5 a.m. for Mass, works most nights until midnight. Said Father Sépinski of his reelection: "I think the next twelve years will kill...
...McDaniel boys-both righthanders, both Bible students-grew up throwing their bullets in Hollis (pop. 3,089), Okla. Lindy got $50,000 to sign in 1955, when he was just 19, had only a mediocre year in 1956 (7-6). When Von struck out 243 batters this spring in his senior year in high school, big-league scouts swarmed around the McDaniel cotton farm once again. But father Newell McDaniel had his mind made up. "Just like Lindy, the price is $50,000," he said. "There's no bidding. I want the two boys to play together." Hastily, Cardinal...
Detroit's Jefferson Beach Marina grew from 75 berths and a $15,000 gross two years ago to 450 berths and a $1,000,000 business last year, plans to add another 300 berths in 1957. Seattle's Bryant's Marina, which struggled along for 20 years rarely topping $100,000 annually, can now handle 400 boats up to the biggest 200-ft., radar-equipped, diesel-engined yachts, and has boosted its business to $6,000,000 this year...