Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next question came, a little apologetically, from the Des Moines Register's Richard L. Wilson. He wanted the President's view fon Manhattan Lawyer Grenville Clark's new book, World Peace Through World Law,* which proposes setting up a world legal order by modifying the United Nations Charter. He had not read this latest Clark book, said Ike, but was familiar with other Clark writings in the same vein. Moreover, he and Secretary Dulles had discussed world-law prospects "only within the last few days. I, myself, quoting my favorite author, wrote a short chapter to conclude...
...small Circarama theater in the U.S. pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, a white-haired man sat expressionless, arms folded, as the circular screen showed movies of U.S. great scenery and U.S. great works. It was the Fourth of July. Suddenly, when the screen showed an aerial view of scarred old mountains and a broad lake and in the midst of them the Colorado River's gleaming Hoover Dam, the old man acknowledged the applause of a small group of Americans standing around him. Thus was Herbert Clark Hoover, 83, happily reminded of his days as President...
When television began to masquerade as the new electronic horizon, cynics pronounced radio dead, or at least moribund. The great names in radio-Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Red Skelton et al.-moved into view and their audiences followed them. For about five years radio played country cousin to TV. Then radio, in terms of listeners and earnings, began a spectacular comeback. Last week radio's listenership was up 8% over last year, 25% over its pre-TV peak in 1947. A record 140 million sets are in use v. 66 million at TV's dawn. Radio...
These depressing statistics are part of a survey by the National Council of Churches that will be published in full next fall. Editorialized last week's Christian Century: In the old American view, the parson was "the representative 'person' of the community, partaking of its representative lot-economically as well as otherwise. The lady of the manse, as helpmeet to her husband, was a sort of stewardess of the steward of the mysteries of God; she raised children as olive plants at his side...
...thought that he was alone, but when he looked up he noticed that a girl had drawn near him. Summer School type, he mused. Ever seeking the eternal adventure, they, like the girl blocking his view, had come to bother...