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...Cure-AII. Besides himself, Cureton's disciples range from Evangelist Billy Graham ("I don't miss my workout even on Sundays") to former Distance Runner Joie Ray, who at 71 has the wind, strength and stamina of a college student, still manages to run the mile in under 7 min. To hear Cureton sermonize, virtually everyone should be out jogging with Joie: "Age is no barrier." Though many doctors disagree with the implication that fitness is synonymous with health, Cureton insists it should be an integral part of everyone's life. Says...
...cold, clear, bright morning, Lyndon Johnson was up at 6:40, breakfasted with Lady Bird, and did some last-minute tinkering with his inaugural speech. Then the Johnsons drove to a special service at Washington's National City Christian Church. Clergymen of several denominations took part, among them Evangelist Billy Graham, who said...
...decolletage was as breathcatching as the Grande Corniche, her hair was hennaed, her makeup stark white; her expressive arms were encased in black gloves to the knobby elbow, and from her thin, lacquered lips slipped a repertory of chansons more Rabelaisian, Evangelist Dwight Moody once grieved, than any "Sodom ever produced." That was French Disease Yvette Guilbert, the ex-seamstress whose reputation became as luminous and lurid as the Divine Sarah or Eleonora Duse...
Last week Jones went on trial in Celina, Tenn. (pop. 1,228). Outside the tiny Clay County courthouse, where Judge Cordell Hull once sat, a bearded evangelist stood on the lawn shouting for sinners to repent. Inside, sweating from the heat of two potbellied stoves, a crowd of wide-eyed youngsters and tobacco-chewing old men listened intently as the D.A. thundered: "When you hit him, did he scream?" Said Jones: "I guess he did, but I wouldn't know because I didn...
With the fervor of an evangelist smoking out pockets of heathens, Lyndon Johnson in the last week of his campaign for election, went into those states where he thought the race with Barry Goldwater might be close. He roared through Florida, Georgia and South Carolina in the Deep South, through Indiana, Illinois and Kansas in the Midwest, through New Mexico, Utah and California in the West...