This is an article written in 1939 by a wise old sage who didn’t have to spend much time with a “television set” in order to predict the tremor that it was likely to cause in the world of pop-culture:
“Of all the brats, legitimate and otherwise, sired of the entertainment business, the youngest, television, looks as if it would be the hardest to raise and to housebreak…”
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Click here to read about the early Christian broadcasts of televangelist Oral Roberts…
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