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JUNE 26
25 years ago: 1990
Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! Yes, your children can evolve into straight-A students while watching “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” And folks, you can lose that ugly weight and become prosperous just by gazing at reruns of “Night Court,” your favorite soap opera or we-missed-it news. Well, maybe. Psychology experts are highly skeptical, but promoters of MindVision are ecstatically confident.
Incidentally, you may not be surprised to learn that this all comes from California. The idea is the old one of subliminal messaging — gone hightech for the 1990s. And there is a price. All the average family needs is a TV, VCR, the MindVision converter (a mere $149.95) and the two-hour MindVision tapes (a paltry $29.95 each) covering whatever improvement you want to
make in your life.
50 years ago: 1965
Dr. Bland W. Cannon, Memphis neurosurgeon, was elected to a five-year term on the American Medical Association’s Council on Medical Education at the annual meeting in New York. He is the first Tennessee physician to be elected to the council, which is composed of 10 outstanding physicians in the field of medical education. “This is a great honor that has come to Dr. Cannon, Memphis and the University of Tennessee College of Medicine where he is associate clinical professor of neurological surgery,” said Dr. M.K. Callison, dean of the college.
75 years ago: 1940
PHILADELPHIA — Herbert Hoover told the Republican convention last night that America must “keep out” of the war unless this hemisphere is attacked and that the Roosevelt New Deal must be ousted because its domestic policies are taking America down the road to dictatorship.
100 years ago: 1915
Pork chops are selling in Memphis for 15 cents a pound; spare ribs for 10 cents a pound; sirloin steak, 17 cents a pound; hamburger meat, 11 cents a pound; lamb chops, 15 cents a pound; and wieners, 12½ cents a pound.
125 years ago: 1890
For the Grand Union excursion this week, which will bring countrymen from all over this area to the city, the Commercial Association has arranged for barrels of ice water and dippers to be placed along Main, at Beale, Union, Madison, Jefferson and Poplar, for the free use of the public.