Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...volunteers to start a local N.A.A.W.P. chapter in Milford. The first to step forward was Mrs. Mildred Sharp. After her came Farmer Charles West ("If God had intended us to associate with the colored race, He wouldn'ta made niggers. He woulda made us all white"), and Evangelist Manaen Warrington. Bryant Bowles promptly made these "three red-blooded Americans" directors of the new chapter, proceeeded to tell his audience more about the dangers of integration. At one point he plunked his three-year-old daughter on the table and cried: "Do you think this little girl will attend school...
...Evangelist Billy Graham, who was conducting a revival meeting in Nashville, came an urgent invitation from the Ministerial Alliance of Phenix City, Ala. Would Preacher Graham bring his crusade to Phenix City for a "sin-killing, old-time revival, reaching into every soul?" This, to many, was just what the doctor ordered, since Phenix City, once known as Sodom, was in the midst of a political upheaval following the murder of a candidate for attorney general and the revelation of a pack of other high crimes (TIME, June 28). But before Graham could reply, the answer came from a different...
...outlaw this "national menace," thundering against it over his radio program. To get his point across, he played a tape-recorded "confession of a 13-year-old nudist girl." Nudist Norval Packwood, executive director of the American Sunbathing Association (with more than 15,000 members), wrote to Evangelist Sawyer and invited him to the A.S.A. national convention at Battle Creek, Mich, "to learn the real truth about nudism." Last week, as the nudists shucked their clothes at Battle Creek, the Rev. Braxton Bragg Sawyer girded his loins for a fight...
...column, "The Sportlight," syndicated to more than 100 U.S. dailies, Granny Rice did more than report sports, often in sentimental verse. "He was the prophet of the glory of games," said his old friend, Manhattan Adman Bruce Barton, "he was an evangelist...
...evangelist strode out onto the platform in dignified, double-breasted blue serge to speak his message. With him stood an interpreter, 27-year-old Wilfred Sybell, a German student at Chicago's Moody Bible Institute, who not only rendered Graham's tense message into German, phrase by phrase, but matched every Graham step and gesture. He pounded the Bible when Billy pounded, pointed to heaven when Billy pointed...