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...sold $726.3 million worth of air time, radio $516 million. ¶Forty-three million U.S. homes have TV sets (turned on an average 5 hr. 56 min. per day); 48.9 million homes have radios (turned on 1 hr...
...rare moment of relaxing, the Air Force's Vice Chief of Staff, bluff, gruff General Curtis E. LeMay, who two weeks ago set a world record for a nonstop 7,100-mile flight from Japan to Washington (time: 12 hr. 28 min.) in a KC-135 jet tanker, critically checked out the stogie-lighting skill of daughter Patricia Jane, 19. The occasion: a father-daughter dinner at the capital's National Press Club, where pretty Pat won a door prize, but failed to coax her high-flying papa from his chair for even one dance...
...Sister Mary Mark and Violinist Sister Mary Denis entered California's congregation of the Immaculate Heart in 1942, Cellist Sister Mary Anthony three years later. Teachers rather than performers most of the year (the congregation has 43 grammar schools in the West), they fulfill a packed, 16½-hr. daily working schedule during the academic term, with no time for concerts. But last year the trio played a successful 24-concert tour (since their rules forbid them to be out at night or up after 10 p.m., they played most concerts in Catholic schools or colleges where they spent...
...Mobile forces, deployed around the world on 24-hr, alert, are backed up by the world's most modern manned bombers; atomic weapons have increased the striking power of U.S. military forces a thousandfold...
...specific talent. He is no actor, singer or dancer. He is a gifted comedian, but not in the Lindy stand-up-and-knock-'em-dead sense. His comedy is low pressure and has to be, if it is to be tolerated on a nightly 1¾-hr. show. "Nine hours a week," says one awed performer of Paar's stint. "My God, that isn't overexposure, it's practically nudism." But Paar seems to have found the formula for beating the dreaded "overexposure" problem...