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Television's newest rage consists of a jukebox full of rock V roll records, a studio full of dancing teenagers, and Dick Clark, a suave young (28) disk jockey full of money. For his go-minute American Bandstand, which is carried by 90 ABC stations each weekday (3 p.m., E.S.T.), Clark draws one of the biggest audiences in daytime TV, some 8,000,000 (half of them adults), 20,000 to 45,000 fan letters a week, and an income approaching $500,000 a year. Admits Clark: "It's all a little frightening...
Disappearing Labels. Some downtown churches such as First English Evangelical in Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle have had to turn themselves into "friendliness" churches, reaching out among the 9-to-5 weekday population around them for what congregations they can get. Lutherans in the mushrooming suburb of North Hollywood have organized a drive-in church. Pastor Glen E. Pierson of Manhattan's 92-year-old Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church describes a process that is taking place all over the U.S. when he says: "We used to be thought of by our own members, as well as by people...
When the Colorado Springs Free Press (circ. 14,743) announced last week, that it was dropping its Sunday edition and boosting its weekday price (to 7?), the paper said in a Page One sales talk: "The first responsibility of a publisher is the same as that of any other businessman-to operate fairly and for motives of profit." But in fact, the Free Press, which has lost an estimated $1,700,000 in eleven years, is one of the fortunate few U.S. dailies that have not had to show a profit...
...advertising, Jesse Jones's Chronicle had long towered over its rivals as commandingly as Jones's San Jacinto Monument* bestrides its battlefield. For the first time in more than 20 years, the Post (circ. 213,198) last October inched ahead of the windy, lethargic Chronicle (212.641,) in weekday circulation (though the Chronicle still has a strapping 14,000 Sunday lead...
...weekday leisure he has rented a $450-a-month ranch house in the city of Leavenworth. The garage doors open automatically, and Ramfis disappears after classes behind shades that are always drawn. Outside, a six-man crew of private detectives watches the house and patrols nearby streets. Back home in Ciudad Trujillo, Dictator Rafael Trujillo Sr., last of Latin America's undisputed strongmen, could be reasonably certain that his heir was both safe and comfortable...