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...report also contained a surprise for those who might think that TV has eclipsed radio: U.S. air waves now support 2,896 commercial AM stations, more than ever before, and more than twice as many as in radio's pre-TV heyday. Only commercial FM keeps slipping, has now dwindled to 530 stations. To see and hear all that TV and radio put out, U.S. homes have "more receivers than bathtubs or running water." The total: 164 million sets, over 60% of the world's total. Of these, 39,000,000 are TV sets, and they cost their...
BEYOND THE AEGEAN, by llias Ve-nezis. The lyrical recollection of a Greek boy's pre-World War I childhood in Anatolia. One of the year's most attractive novels-a remem brance of things past, explored with joyous wonder, grace and dignity...
...noted the existence of a large corpus of Gaelic poetry in pre-Christian times, "long before the English could read or write." "But," she added, "of course when they did learn finally, they produced a Shakspere." She pointed out that the Irish have always had poetry in the marrow of their bones. And this is true, from the most learned scholar to the lowliest illiterate--a characteristic the Irish share with the Japanese...
Last week the planners felt the first big wallop of another challenge: through local stations in major viewing areas, a broadside of some 2,500 recently available pre-1949 Hollywood movies began hitting the TV screen as if it were a bull's-eye. In a blaze of ballyhoo, Manhattan's WCBS began unwrapping its $20 million package of 725 M-G-M films at the rate of two a day. With Clark Gable in Command Decision, the station scored a whopping Trendex rating of 28.4 on Saturday night after 10:30 p.m., then found that even...
Encouraged by the fading Suez crisis, the stock market last week scored the biggest week's gain since 1938, with industrials soaring 22.01 points on the Dow-Jones average to close at 494.79. Across the board, a pre-Christmas surge of business sent old records falling. The Commerce Department reported manufacturers' sales at a new high of $30.1 billion in October, $1.6 billion better than the previous record of last March; new orders rose to $29.5 billion, $300 million above last August's previous high. Personal income also set records: after topping previous peaks for two straight...