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...constitutional right of the 359 inmates to religious freedom was being denied, and 2) a prison rule was being broken by permitting religious services to be held outside the chapel. Last week the case came up in Seattle's Superior Court. A parade of prisoners testified that the evangelists competed loudly with each other, asked for contributions, insisted that inmates could be saved only by kneeling by the bars while an evangelist put his hands on their heads. "If you tried to talk," said a prisoner, "they'd just play the music louder and shake their fists...
Superior Court Judge Howard M. Findley sidestepped the constitutional issue, refused to terminate the services. But before the evangelists could get out a hallelujah, he also refused their request to abrogate the prison rule prohibiting services outside the chapel, turned the whole matter over to Sheriff Tim Mc-Cullough. The sheriff decided that services henceforth will be held in the chapel where the evangelists can reach only prisoners who want to hear them. "It's a dirty shame," said one evangelist. "Why, we've been the bulwark against Communism in that jail for many years...
...senior proctor has warned undergraduates that Billy Graham must not be kidnaped when he arrives in Cambridge today." This stern warning in the varsity newspaper greeted Evangelist Graham when he arrived for a week-long revival that was certainly one of the strangest weeks ever known by Cambridge, whose attitude toward religion has long been intellectual, skeptical, or slightly pained...
...Evangelist Graham's sponsor was CICCU-the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union-called "Kick You" by both its friends and enemies. The 400 undergraduate members stimulate many of their fellow students and dons to snorts of irritation at their frankly anti-intellectual attitude and their assurance that they alone have the Gospel of Christ. "Why, didn't you know?" said one classics student last week. "In Cambridge, Christ is the property of CICCU." "But you can't enter into CICCU's Christ," said another, "because they have only one part of Him-the crucified part...
President Funston seems preordained for his evangelist's job. He is in the prime of life (45), tall (6 ft. 3 in.), ruggedly built (200 Ibs.), and he has a boyish smile and an easy friendliness that make him at ease with Kansas dirt farmers, Milwaukee matrons or millionaire Texans. He is not interested in who sells the stock-or in what companies-so long as the stock is sound. Says he: "A very small amount of personal savings goes into direct stock ownership. I'm not interested in how we split the pie. I want a bigger...