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...silence in the room when he was finished, remembers Raborn, "was like the silence after a talk by an evangelist. It was the silence before you heard the shuffle on the sawdust." Lockheed Vice President L. E. Root turned to his boss, Bob Gross, and whispered something, the sibilants resounding across the quiet room. When Root was finished. Bob Gross walked to the blackboard and wrote "Lockheed." General Electric's Ralph Cordiner stood up and said: "Give us the money and stay out of our hair." Everyone else simply nodded. The next day a Marine courier arrived...
...also peels a sharp eye for stories of more than sectarian interest. After Ellen Severson was chosen Miss Miami Beach last year, Taft put her on the church page-in her role as organist and Sunday school teacher at Miami's Palmetto Presbyterian Church. When a phony evangelist named Jack Coe came to town, Taft exposed him, harvested 10,000 letters from readers-mostly grateful-and had the rich satisfaction of seeing Coe hastily strike his revival tent. Taft keeps running track of two Bade County lawsuits challenging a state law that requires public-school teachers to hold morning...
...Graham's career, he was conducting a second "crusade" in a major city. The city: Washington, D.C. To his audience at Griffith Stadium, Billy took pains to explain that his return engagement did not mean he considered Washington more sinful than other cities. "I'm back," said Evangelist Graham, "because it's the most important city in the world...
...fellow Canadians" (as he likes to address them) have noticed a change in Diefenbaker's recent television appearances. Gone is the rolling oratory. The Prime Minister now sits quietly behind a desk and speaks in even tones with, as the Vancouver Province noted, "little trace of the evangelist exhorting his flock" that was once his style...
Negative factors worked for Jack Kennedy, too. Humphrey drew good crowds and held them like an evangelist, but he just could not get across the idea that he was a serious presidential candidate. His silent partnership with Candidates Stuart Symington and Lyndon Johnson did him no good, and the pro-Humphrey campaign of West Virginia's Senator Robert Byrd, an avowed Johnson man, boomeranged savagely. Kennedy even carried Byrd's home town, Sophia, 237-135. As a former Ku Klux Klansman, Byrd probably accounted for a large part of Kennedy's big Negro vote...