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...first religious leader to preach to audiences of millions at a time was Manhattan's Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, who, after 25 years of radio-rating, moved into TV in 1952, attracted as many as 16 million listeners over 144 stations. With pontific gesture but light-hearted approach, he used blackboard drawings to discuss philosophy, referred to the Virgin Mary as "Our Lady of Television," earned high ratings even opposite Lucy and You Bet Your Life...
...York's (and TV's) Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, No. 1 U.S. Catholic-missions official, gave the keynote speech ("The future harmony on the organ of humanity will be played on the black keys of Africa"), but the meeting's impetus came from an encyclical issued last Easter by Pope Pius XII, in which he warned that "atheistic materialism has spread its virus of division through various regions of Africa." At least one speaker, Father J. Alfred Richard of the White Fathers, linked Communism with the spread of Islam. Communists seek to weaken a powerful enemy, Christianity...
...realized from the sale of Opelika's radio station WJHO and other holdings, sold stock to friends by incorporating in 1950, raised another $246,675 in 1953 by a public offering of 149,500 shares of stock. After licking production problems, he developed a new tape coating (Ferro-Sheen) with unusually high fidelity. This caught the eye of the Ampex Corp., a maker of wire recorders and other electronic equipment, which had gone into the manufacture of tape recorders after one of its engineers had brought two of the Magnetophons back from Germany. ORRadio and Ampex worked together...
After reading the Letters to the Editor concerning the Billy Graham crusade, I have concluded that hell is a place where Catholics are forced to listen to Billy Graham and Protestants to Fulton Sheen...
Perhaps recalling too that TV's other inspirational spellbinder Bishop Fulton Sheen had begun his electronic tenure opposite Milton Berle and was still going strong last season against I Love Lucy, Revivalist Graham returned to the TV pulpit this weekend more streamlined and confident than ever. Eschewing the hell-fire-and-brimstone theatrics of his historical predecessors, he pitched his sermon just as he had for 24 consecutive nights to huge Garden crowds. He also added to his TV experience this week with Sunday appearances on Meet the Press and Steve Allen's Sunday night vaudeville hour. Explained...