MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1998
MINNEAPOLIS — In one of his novels, Tom Clancy got the Minnesota Vikings to the Super Bowl and then destroyed them with a nuclear weapon. The best-selling author hopes to write a very different ending to the Vikings’ next Super Bowl trip now that the current owners have accepted his bid to buy the team. Clancy’s Nfl-record offer of slightly more than $200 million all but ended one of the league’s most unusual ownership structures.
50 years ago — 1973
“Sights and Sounds of Love,” a three-day seminar and workshop sponsored by the Memphis area chapter of Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, will be held Feb. 23-24 at Central Towers at Memphis State University. A national panel of parapsychologists, psychics, educators and ministers will discuss ESP, dreams, mind control, survival after death, psychic problems and spiritual healing during the seminar.
75 years ago — 1948
The gay and whimsical “Der Rosenkavalier” by Richard Strauss and the moody and tragic “La Traviata” by Verdi have been chosen as the two operas to be presented here at Ellis Auditorium by the Metropolitan Opera Co. on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 6-7. 100 years ago — 1923
Offering to ambitious men and women wherever The Commercial Appeal circulates an unprecedented opportunity to share in a truly magnificent array of prizes and commissions, totaling in value over $25,000. The
Commercial Appeal takes pleasure in announcing today the details and the opening of an Automobile Prize Campaign. Twenty splendid motor cars and 30 generous gold awards will be distributed among the half-hundred most successful in the great campaign.
125 years ago — 1898
NASHVILLE — The Memphis bills
are getting in a tangle. A conference committee considered this afternoon the amendments which were made to the waterworks bill. The only changes the senate made in amendments adopted by the house was to insert “shall” for “may” in reference to the character of the bonds for the purchase or extension of the waterworks.