Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last year the number of new Methodist church members (current membership: 739,000) fell to the lowest level in 13 years; some 100,000 children stopped attending Sunday schools. Every year, for the last twelve years, the total number of ministers has declined; it fell by 276 during the past year. There is a shortage of 5,000 preachers in rural areas, where Methodism may soon "expire." Added Sangster: "We thought that even if our numbers were smaller, we could count on the total conviction of the people who came. But even those in the pews are having their...
...from a Brokerage. The occasion was the institute's 23rd annual art exhibit, which since 1953, when prize totals topped $5,000 has become a national affair that gives artists a summer-season target worth shooting at. On the walls were 50 paintings from past prizewinners and another 250 winnowed out from the 1,701 entries submitted; they divided about evenly between abstract and realistic...
...Francisco. Some 800,000 San Franciscans had crowded into tiny (capacity: 23,144) Seals Stadium to watch their heroes (more than the team drew all season in New York). At week's end they cheered frenziedly as the Giants whipped the Pittsburgh Pirates and barged boldly past the Milwaukee Braves into first place...
Despite pessimistic predictions of a new era of consumer uncertainty, the Center reports an overwhelming feeling among consumers that a real depression is impossible, detects only a slight impairment of the "underlying feelings of confidence and security which characterized the past ten years." In 1958 the U.S. consumer has merely been forced to think twice about what he buys. With one in six families reporting some joblessness in the past year, the percentage that said they were financially better off this June than a year ago was down considerably from 32% to 22%. Yet when it comes to the future...
...Parisienne (Lopert; United Artists) fires off BB again, in far and away the most delightful of the seven Bardot reports that have popped in the U.S. in the past two years. Scriptwriters Annette Wademant and Jean Aurel have turned out an original screenplay with a plot that is no more distinctive than a stick, but they have given it a frothy, spicy, sugar-candy coating...