Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bird of another feather. Midway in his term, Duff led a coup d'état against Boss Joe Grundy and his Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. In 1950, what was left of Pennsylvania's Republican power was picked up by a group of county leaders called the Blue Bell Boys (because they held strategy dinners at the Blue Bell Inn, north of Philadelphia). The Blue Bell Boys sent Jim Duff off to the Senate and John Fine to Harrisburg...
...visit ten homes and ask the residents to carry the campaign message to ten other homes. Within a few hours, telephones and doorbells were ringing across the U.S. as part of the final burst of political milling that was to end only when the voters clanged the last bell of the 1954's big political fight...
...most important thing he did at Wheaton was to court his future wife, Ruth McCue Bell, a pretty, vivacious China missionary's daughter (Emily Cavanaugh had in the meantime married her Harvard man). Said he in a recent sermon: "I tell you ... the first time I kissed [my wife], I don't know whether she had any emotion, but I sure did. And when you fall in love with Jesus, you are. going to feel it ... Now if I had married all the girls ... I wanted to marry, the Lord only knows where I would have been tonight...
...Ruth Bell, Billy himself seemed to be the answer to a prayer-one she had written before...
Graham often conducts his morning "meditation" in bed, avoids the telephone, and dictates his newspaper columns, radio scripts and sermons half a dozen at a sitting. The spirit of the home is set by pert, pretty Ruth Bell Graham, who still knows the Bible better than her husband and whose quiet good taste has led a friend to call her "half the explanation for Billy Graham." "Not a day goes by," says Ruth, "when I don't ask the Lord for wisdom: how to bring up the children, how to make this suit, how to do this and that...