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Besides being football captain and holder of five pass-catching records at the academy, Carpenter was battalion commander and winner of a special award for "inspirational personal courage and leadership in athletics." "Bill," said former Army Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik, "had the mentality for doing the unusual. His kind of leadership was the quiet type-action rather than words. He'd do something himself on the football field and that would inspire the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Once & Future Hero | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...hour is late and the world is sick," he told 19,000 spellbound opening-night listeners at the Earl's Court arena. "The world is moving toward a rendezvous with a frightful destiny." From the hydrangea-festooned platform, Billy denounced the radical "Death of God" theologians, and shouted: "I fear that sex has become our goddess-and has that one-eyed thing in our living room become our God?" Moved by the fist-pounding sermon, 450 people-a leonine blackbeard, a Negro youth, a golden blonde, hand-holding lovers-came forward to make "decisions for Christ" almost precisely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evangelism: Billy in London | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

...Greater London into postal zones, the Graham organizers found supervisors for each zone, who in turn commanded subzone lieutenants and block captains. In all, 20,000 laymen were recruited to make "threshold visitations" to 3,000,000 London homes during the crusade, inviting people to the nightly rallies at Earl's Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evangelism: Billy in London | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

...finished a farce with Rock Hudson called Blindfold. Everyone's eyes were wide open in Manhattan, when Claudia arrived to flack for the picture and offer learned comments right from the bosom. "It's not the only thing any more," she demurely told Broadway Gossip Earl Wilson. "You used to look only at the bosom. Now you look at the legs, the body, the whole girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 3, 1966 | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

Andersen's 9.7 won't impress a field that has five men at 9.5 or under. Don Ardinger of Gettysburg has turned in a 9.4, but the probable favorite is oft-injured Sam Perry of Fordham. Ray Pollard of Morgan State, Jim Lee of Maryland, and defending champion Earl Horner of Villanova have also been clocked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tony Lynch, Pardee Will Sit-Out IC4A's, Varsity to Enter Four-Man Team in Meet | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

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