Beatles Have Cash Proof HB' Repentance Is Profitable 1 Britain's Beatles are proving that repentance is good for the bank balance as well as the soul. Midway through their current American tour, the Liverpool foursome with the medieval hair-do's already have appeared before nearly 200,000 shrieking, squealing, sometimes fainting teen-age fans. And they've banked more than half a million dollars for dollar-short Britain. Their record, "Yellow Submarine," was No. 8 on the latest Billboard Magazine poll and disk jockeys indicated that it probably would climb. The Beatles were in Cincinnati Saturday. In nearly all their shows, I they played before packed or nearly packed houses. At Memphis, clergymen scheduled a youth rally to conflict with the Beatle appearances in retaliation for John Lennon's candid interview with a woman columnist published in the London Evening Standard last March, in which he was quoted as saying the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus." BRIAN EPSTEIN, the Beatles' manager, called the Memphis audience "subdued" (only one girl fainted, one boy was eject ed and it was even possible to hear singing above the screams). But all the same, 20,000 teens paid $100,000 to watch Lennon, Bingo Starr, George Harrison, and Paid McCartney perform. The furry foursome got the tour launched on a proper note the night they arrived in Chicago, Aug. 11, when Lennon told a news conference that he was not anti - God, anti- Christ or anti-religion. I am sorry I opened my mouth." Next day, one adoring fan insisted "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus' "A n o t h e r said, . "They can say what they want. I think they're g r e a t." A third said, "They'll still be popular because they apologized." The marriages of three of the foursome have apparently failed to dampen the ardor of their nubile fans. In Chicago, a teen-age girl was injured when she caught her head in the door of a freight elevator at the posh Astor Towers Hotel while attempting to make her way to the Beatles' suite. At were Toronto, two girls found hiding in a dirty laundry hamper at the Beatles' hotel. Another posed as a nurse and made it as far as the Beatles' door. PUBLIC BflHtt SAVINGS ounnntiTEE tno interest Only Public Bank GUARANTEES this 5 change in economic conditions, AND Only Public Bank GUARANTEES the Savings Bonds at any 90 day interval. At Public Bank your 5 Savings Bonds regulations of the Federal Deposit insurance TD iimljkd
