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...whom he had married in Tennessee when he was 25 years old, fell ill with heart trouble. As her condition worsened, she required day & night nurses and extensive medical attention. Barkley's finances were exhausted, and he made ends meet by taking on a heavy schedule of out-of-town speeches. After a day's work in the Senate he would fly out of town to deliver a lighthearted speech, pick up a fee ranging from $300 to $1,000, and fly home again during the night to visit briefly with the dying Mrs. Barkley, then report again...
...Southern Baptist Convention held the largest annual meeting in its 107-year history last week. Besides 11,063 "Messengers" (the official title of Convention delegates), an extra 10,000 out-of-town guests and spectators tried to squeeze into the daily sessions at Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium,* where the Messengers approved the well-prepared resolutions of the Convention's 43 reporting committees...
...Network's innovations over the past year has been the broadcasting of out-of-town sports events over the facilities of the station at the school where the game is being played. Here again, policy varies from station to station: WHRB's audience research polls showed that University students prefer the present programming setup, with its emphasis on classical music, and the broadcasting of sports events has therefore been left out of the local schedule...
Crider indicated that he had considered several out-of-town offers, but has decided to remain in the Boston area if at all possible. "This radio-TV deal appears to be the answer," he concluded...
...suffered because of the program. He cited one game played in New Haven, at which the attendance was seriously decreased because of the televising of another game under the N.C.A.A. plan. Football television, he added, was hurting attendance throughout the nation, because fans ignored local contests to watch out-of-town games...