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Last week, while preparing for the Nov. 28 annual pro draft, the scouts opened their books on the men who will be getting the big money-and big it will be. With the upstart American Football League challenging the staid old N.F.L. for talent, a promising young man can write his own ticket-bonus of $25,000 and up, free car, free house, $15,000-a-season salary, twice what rookies earned a few years ago. TIME'S pro-picked All-America...
...Even staid banks, which used to leave most consumer credit to others, are bombarding customers with new easy-loan plans. In the competition for auto loans, which account for nearly half of all installment debt, banks have pulled ahead of the auto-finance companies by offering lower interest rates. Still the competition grows. Following the lead of General Motors, both Ford and Chrysler have set up their own credit subsidiaries, and so have General Electric and Sears, Roebuck...
...Beatles have been different. The appeal of their songs and their movie extended far above the level of the screaming teenager. Even staid adult types enjoyed the Beatles' sophisticated irreverence and quick humor in A Hard Day's Night...
...Deutsche Grammophon). This is the first of Haydn's six last Masses, those great, sturdy monuments of faith that look backward musically to Handel and forward to Beethoven. Rafael Kubelik and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform the superb work so deliberately that it seems staid at first but builds slowly to an impressive climax in the Agnus Dei, with its insistent rolls of drums that give the work its popular title, the Paukenmesse or Drum Mass...
...nation's largest Negro church is the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. Its 5,000,000 members are fond of fervent gospel songs and sin-damning sermons, and show little interest in merging with more staid and sober white Baptist groups. Their kind of leader is the Rev. Joseph Harrison Jackson, the grandfatherly ecclesiastical politician who last week in Detroit was overwhelmingly elected to his twelfth consecutive term as National Baptist president...