Word: montes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for the elections (see above), last week was most notable for three returning shows and an off-screen squabble. Du Mont's second-highest rated program, Life Is Worth Living (the first: professional football), again featured Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, resplendent in his ecclesiastical robes and as pontific in gesture and incisive in speech as before. There were some additions: 1) a new set, giving the appearance of a paneled, tile-floored room, 2) a new statue of the Virgin Mary that was conceived and commissioned by the bishop and introduced as "Our Lady of Television...
...Almost every major denomination reported that it has set up a special department to pep up its rural ministry. Some have established bustling "group ministries" or "yoked field" plans in which three or four pastors move into an unchurched district. A Congregationalist delegate reported that in Broadus, Mont, the Rev. Harold Heckman, a former missionary in India, has built a central community church from which he and his wife serve six rural communities in an area the size of Connecticut. All six have consolidated their denominational congregations, and Mr. Heckman ministers to them all, using a Piper...
...Angeles County Medical Association (Medic), and the San Francisco Police (The Lineup'). Public Defender ranges from coast to coast in grabbing "actual cases on file in courts across the country," and U.S. newspaper morgues are looted to get plots for The Big Story. Last week Du Mont presented a new show. Secret File, U.S.A., that was so classified that no one connected with it was quite sure just what supersecret file they were into. An executive of the producer, Official Films, Inc., said mysteriously: "There's a tie in there between the chief writer and somebody...
President Eisenhower (Thurs. 10:30 p.m., Du Mont, CBS Radio & NBC Radio). Speaking on "Human Rights," from Manhattan...
Trial Run. In Eureka. Mont., Pat Wager, candidate for town constable, went on a campaign tour of several bars, decided he was as good as elected, jailed three citizens, landed in jail himself for disturbing the peace...