Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...listener he did not take by storm was Novelist-Playwright J. B. Priestley, who analyzed his first experience of Evangelist Graham (on TV) for the New Statesman & Nation, a journal that distrusts Heaven almost as much as it does the United States of America. Socialist-minded Observer Priestley, who in his stories has shown himself fascinated with the supernatural, found Billy just another example of the made-in-U.S.A. world that Britons are forced to live...
...starring Bill Williams and Georgia Lee) has its world premiere in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium this week before an admission-free audience (it is still uncertain whether it will be distributed commercially). Wiretapper is the latest and possibly most potent weapon in the arsenal of a personable young evangelist. No Collection Problems. In 1947 Jim Vaus was a Los Angeles electronics engineer in business for himself. Doing illegal wiretapping for the police to collect evidence on a call-girl racket brought him publicity, and publicity got him into the lucrative line of tapping the phones of Hollywood stars. Wrote...
...other miners nicknamed him "the Evangelist." But faith and sobriety made Agustín a more diligent prospector. Early this year, panning in the remote Paragua River, he found an egg-size black stone "that shone like a diamond." Agustín thankfully put it in his pocket and paddled away. But joy soon changed to anxiety. For some of the miners who saw the stone said it was a rare gem worth $600,000 or more, but others scoffed that it was only an industrial diamond worth a bare $4,000. Afraid to test his luck, Agust...
Last week Agustín finally turned the stone over to a government geologist in Ciudad Bolivar. The expert weighed and measured, tested and probed. At length he announced that the Evangelist was 698 carats-of almost pure iron...
Although he customarily wins friends and influences people wherever he preaches salvation, Evangelist Billy Graham (TIME, Oct. 25) unwittingly made some British enemies. Up to his nonclerical collar in a "Tell Scotland" crusade, Graham found himself in the rough, both on a Scottish golf course and in the minds of England's organized animal lovers. The ruckus began when he started a BBC broadcast with a bland enough statement: "Fishes belong to the sea, animals belong to the jungle, human beings belong to God." But to Britain's buffalo-chip-on-shoulder League Against Cruel Sports, these were...