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...yourself movement, made possible by unprecedented income and leisure of the common run of Americans. Such diversions, it was suggested, could account for less dependence on alcoholic drinks for relief from boredom. This is evidence that Americans are not being led into debauchery by prosperity and the five-day week...
...Some 30,000 Jehovah's Witnesses descended on New York City for a five-day Triumphant Kingdom Assembly, the fifth of eleven Witness assemblies that will take place throughout the world this year, heard the imminence of Armageddon preached in flower-decked Yankee Stadium, spent their spare time making door-to-door efforts to convert "pagan" New Yorkers. Meanwhile, their brethren in Vermont decided to abandon plans to use Burlington's Memorial Auditorium for a meeting in October after veterans' groups, bristling at the Witnesses' refusal to salute the flag or bear arms, threatened to throw...
...Billy Graham arrived in Paris to begin a five-day evangelical crusade, a phalanx of welcomers broke through a line of gendarmes at the railway station, shouting "Beelee! Beelee! Beelee!" "Bee-lee? Who is this Beelee?" asked a harassed official. Said a bystander in surprise: "Why, monsieur, do you not know Beelee Graham, the American clairvoyant?" Thanks to a wave of advance publicity and hundreds of portrait posters pasted throughout Paris and the provinces, most Frenchmen thought they knew who Billy was. The fact that few precisely understood his religious role or the meaning of his evangelistic crusade...
...Editors realize that their elders have probably lost the genius of spontaneous good times. Bearing the world's weight (and possibly the expense of our education) for twenty-five years has, perhaps, dulled the sense of merriment that allows one to seek out his own amusement. Our elders must be led in pleasure as they lead others in business. So much for the objection to the organizational aspects of the five-day regimented spree...
Commencement Day brings the five-day festivities to a more solemn climax. The Alumni Parade will join the Commencement parade in welcoming young scholars into the community of educated...