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...Today Evangelist Graham produces his own TV and radio shows (cost: $20,000 a week), is president and featured player of his own motion-picture company (it has made two movies-with-a-message), and leads month-long crusades in cities from coast to coast. (Last June 1, in Houston's Rice Stadium, Billy drew his alltime record crowd: 60,000.) For his considerable labors, Billy draws an annual salary of $15,000, plus professional expenses, as president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. The association's funds come from the collection plates passed at Graham crusades...
...next few months Fuchida plans to travel throughout the U.S. with Evangelist Sachs, watching how Sky Pilots International operates. Since Sachs founded his movement in 1945, some 6,000 boys and young men have joined the "squadrons" he establishes in cooperating churches. To get his sky pilot's silver wings, a boy must: 1) attend church or Sunday school for six successive weeks, 2) memorize ten scriptural verses having to do with salvation, 3) "Accept Christ Jesus as his Savior," 4) successfully fly his own model airplane in competition. Gold wings are awarded to everyone who brings a convert...
...University of Paris. He was 23, a tutor and a convivial man about town, when he met his fellow Basque, Ignatius Loyola, who was to be the founder of the Society of Jesus. After that, his life changed. Sixteen years later, a priest and a single-minded evangelist, he left Lisbon on a Portuguese carrack to found the Jesuit missions in Asia. He never returned to Europe...
...Chester Nimmo, a bright but poor local chap. Chester, twice Nina's age, is aware of her condition but considers the marriage a bargain. It means a tie-up with a family still socially important, and Nina's small fortune is a windfall. Chester is a Protestant evangelist, almost a mystic, and also burning with radical political ambitions...
Each contributor was asked to write about his favorite saint. Two saints, Francis of Assisi and the Spanish mystic John of the Cross, were selected twice. Poet Noyes has written about St. John the Evangelist as the most "intuitive" of the Apostles. George Lamb, a young British Catholic, discusses St. Simeon Stylites, the 5th century hermit who spent 37 years sitting on a pillar. Psychiatrist Karl Stern writes about St. Théreèse of Lisieux, a bourgeois French girl who died in 1897, at 24, in a Carmelite cloister. Also included: one Pope, Pius V; two Jesuits, Ignatius...