Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hawk-eyed Evangelist Billy Graham came home from Europe after seeing the sights in London (TIME, June 22), sighting the signs in Moscow. His observation of the U.S.S.R.: "They have not been able to stamp out God in Russia . . . Went to a number of churches, and I estimate that at least one-fifth of the congregation were teen-agers." Then Graham, who presided over a mammoth crusade in New York City in 1957, came close to admitting that it had been a big flop: "It was like a flea crawling on an elephant. New York is so big that...
...weirder routines, Bruce imagines Evangelist Oral Roberts putting in a long-distance call to the Vatican: "Hello, John, what's shaking, baby? Say, that puff of white smoke was genius. By the way, Billy Graham wants to know if you can get him a deal on those Eyetalian sports cars." Appearing at San Francisco's hungry i last week (at $2,500 a week), Bruce seemed to amuse most of the customers, outraged many, and quickly got into a feud with the San Francisco Chronicle's celebrated columnist Herb Caen, who called Bruce a bore. Lenny retaliated...
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...What did Evangelist Billy Graham and Wife Ruth observe on their afternoon stroll through the parks of London? Britain's newsmen grew more curious as Graham tossed out hints like purple confetti. Said he: "I have traveled all over the world and never seen anything like it!" Pressed for specifics, he allowed: "The parks looked as if they had been turned into a bedroom." Still an ambiguous witness, he served up some advice for all young folks: "The new generation is better acquainted with Jayne Mansfield's statistics than they are with the Seventh Commandment . . . Slow down...
...styled plot revolves around a desiccated young country solicitor named George Links who is bored with his marriage. To get away to London one night a week, he pretends to be in psychoanalysis; actually, he rents an attic room in the home of England's most famous literary evangelist and quickly manages to seduce the evangelist's wife. After that, the book turns into an old-fashioned game of musical beds: George's wife, learning of the affair, permits herself to be seduced by his oldest friend; the friend's mistress comforts herself by propositioning George...