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campuses, where combined student enrollment is limited to less than
1,500. It publishes a Correspondence Course with more than 100,000
enrolled, worldwide. It publishes The PLAIN TRUTH, circulation
approaching 1,500,000 copies. Its publishing operations are large.
It maintains its own large printing plants -- at Watford, England;
North Sydney, Australia; Big Sandy, Texas, beside the Pasadena
plant, one of the largest west of Chicago. The Ambassador payroll
in the city of Pasadena alone is $5,500,000 per year.
Ambassador College is the largest purchaser of radio
program time in the world, broadcasting on nearly 400 radio
stations worldwide, including many of the largest-powered and
top-prestige stations -- broadcasting The WORLD TOMORROW daily on
most of these stations. And now, in our own superbly equipped
modern television studios The WORLD TOMORROW is being produced for
television, full color. We maintain branch offices in Vancouver,
B.C., Duesseldorf and Bonn, West Germany, Geneva, Johannesburg,
Nicosia, Cyprus, Jerusalem, Sydney, Manila and Mexico City, beside
the three college campuses.
WHAT ABOUT THE WORLD TOMORROW PROGRAM? This program began on
radio the first week in 1934, from Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A. Its
growth has been steady and consistent. Until about 1952 mine was
its only voice. In 1952 and 1953 my elder son, Richard David, took
part in a few programs -- carried perhaps a couple by himself. By
1954 my younger son, Garner Ted, was appearing frequently on the
program. Soon he carried two or three full programs a week, then
gradually he took over more and more. By 1960 I was appearing on
the program only about once a week, and finally he became its sole
voice. My elder son, Dick, was killed by an automobile accident in
1958.
HOW IS THE PROGRAM PRODUCED? Some ask, "How can Garner
Ted Armstrong write so much script every day?" The answer is, he
doesn't. He ad-libs. Of course, he will usually have a few notes
hastily written shortly before he goes on the air -- perhaps a
sentence or two, but rarely more than that. Then there is our News
Bureau, well staffed. It is equipped with Teletypes clicking off
the latest news from all three leading press services, from all
over the world 24 hours a day. The news staff checks many
newspapers, such as New York Times, London Times, Chicago Tribune,
Christian Science Monitor (a newspaper -- NOT a religious journal).
They carefully check the leading news magazines from all over the
world. They supply my son with carefully organized reports,
highlighted, marked, on whatever subjects he plans to talk about.
He has this material before him. But primarily, he ad-libs.
"But where does he get all his facts -- all that
information he keeps pouring out?" Some of it, of course, from the
News Bureau clippings and notes -- but mostly, "out of his head."
Garner Ted is now 38, has a Ph.D., is a rapid reader, has a high
sense of comprehension, and a rare ability of retention. He reads
a great deal -- newspapers, magazines, books -- especially on
subjects of world conditions, social and moral conditions, human
problems. He travels a good deal -- has visited most parts of
the world -- Japan, South America (he speaks Spanish without
"foreign" accent), South Africa, Australia, Europe, the Middle