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...preaching practice. Billy began at a Tampa mission for derelicts, drunks and dope addicts. His first church sermon came on Easter evening in 1938, and was a dismal flop. But Billy went on practicing -mostly exhorting the fish and alligators of a nearby swamp to leave their evil ways and be saved. He preached his first real revival at the Baptist Church of East Palatka, Fla. in June 1939. Halfway through the week-long series, word spread that Preacher Graham, nominally a Presbyterian, had never been immersed. One look at the shocked and sour faces before him and Billy...
Welcoming the delegates to the Americans for Democratic Action convention last year, Democrat Easter Furcolo suggested that the group disband. The gambit was designed to make him more acceptable to the average voter in the present Senatorial battle. But as a Master of election surprises, Furcolo has suddenly found himself a victim of the unexpected switch. His fellow Democrat Senator John Kennedy, has refused to support him against Republican Leverett Saltonstall...
Shortly before Easter in 1895, two English boys, aged 8 and 9, were wrenched from the security of a happy family life in Victorian London and sent abroad like fugitive criminals to forget their past, their parenthood and even their names. The crime from which they fled was that of being born the sons of Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, the most famous and quite suddenly the most notorious literary figure...
Back to his Washington desk hobbled Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey, with a game leg for the second time this year. Last Easter Humphrey tore the muscles above his left ankle when his horse kicked him. Then he sprained the same ankle while walking on his Ohio farm. Just to keep the ankle out of trouble while Humphrey's schedule is so tight, doctors this time put foot and ankle in a cast, gave the Secretary a cane for support...
...children's camp. It is one of about 45 camps across the U.S. sponsored by the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults. This summer more than 7,000 children will attend the camps. Total operating cost this season: $2,000,000, largely financed by the sale of Easter seals...