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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since war's end, however, things seem to have been looking up again for M.R.A. At last year's World Assembly, 5,000 delegates held their sessions at an Alpine resort hotel the Buchmanites had newly purchased in Switzerland. In Los Angeles last week, Assembly delegates ate, slept and lounged in a brand-new seven-story local headquarters. "Buchmanism" never seems to worry about funds. But its sources of income, like the number of its converts, are matters that Buchmanites are vague about. Says Founder Frank Buchman solemnly: "Where God guides, God provides...
...faced with an unusual problem: his Seeing Eye dog was going blind, too. Ethel, a German shepherd, had been Cross's faithful guide for seven years. Six months ago cataracts dimmed Ethel's eyes; she began bumping into things, and Cross could no longer trust her in Los Angeles' heavy traffic...
...When the Los Angeles Examiner ran a story about it, readers wrote in recalling that a Los Angeles eye surgeon, Dr. H. George Blasdel, had removed cataracts from his own cocker spaniel. Dr. Blasdel agreed to operate on Ethel...
...Hollywood was now almost knee-deep in TV. Warner Brothers closed a $1,000,000 deal (contingent on the FCC's sanction) with New York Post Publisher Dorothy Thackrey to buy her two West Coast radio stations and a precious Los Angeles TV permit. Paramount already owns two stations, is bidding against 20th Century-Fox for a San Francisco channel. Twentieth Century-Fox announced that it will now also produce films specially for television. Only two major studios (MGM, RKO Radio) still hang back. "The whole industry," said one film maker, "is either jumping or jumpy...
Unfair Trade. In Los Angeles, a divorce was granted to Mrs. Arthur M. Hamburger after she testified that her husband insisted on doing the cooking, made her do the dishes...