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Jimmy Durante was there. So was Evangelist Billy Graham, Author John Dos Passes, Banker David Rockefeller, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Under Secretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., and onetime Vice President Henry A. Wallace. Luci Baines Johnson, two days before her 17th birthday, had 25 of her teen-age friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Doin' The Bird | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

Jackie was constantly on the phone. Rose Kennedy was in North Carolina, where, with Teddy, Evangelist Billy Graham and Governor Terry Sanford, she appeared at a fund-raising rally. The North Carolina "quota" for the $10 million John F. Kennedy Memorial Library on the banks of Boston's sleepy Charles River had been set at $200,000, and this rally alone produced pledges of more than that amount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philanthropy: Building a Library | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

Gauguin talked taller than he stood. Actually, he was a little (5 ft. 4 in.) bantam of a man. But he walked Pont-Aven's streets with a nautical swagger, his great jut of a nose tilted in the air, looking like an evangelist pirate captain. He spouted maxims: "A line is colour, since it can only be born from the contour of spaces," or "The ugly can be beautiful, the pretty, never." To his wife, who was supporting the five children at her family's home in Copenhagen, he sent periodic sermons defining his new position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Austere Heretic | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

Perhaps the most remarkable demonstration of all came on Easter Sunday in Birmingham, Ala., citadel of segregation. There, some 35,000 people, Negro and white in almost equal numbers and comprising the largest integrated gathering in Alabama history, flocked to a city-owned football field to hear Evangelist Billy Graham. Exclaimed he: "What a moment and what an hour in Birmingham!" It was certainly that-far different from another Sunday, only seven months before, when a dynamite blast at a Negro church killed four little girls. Said Arthur P. Cook, white publisher of three local weeklies, about the Graham meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Debate in the Senate; A Meeting in Birmingham | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

Born. To Virginia Graham Tchivi-djian, 18, daughter of Evangelist Billy; and Stephan Tchividjian, 23, Armenian-descended businessman son of a financier who is Billy's strongest supporter in Switzerland: their first child, a son (and first grandchild for the 45-year-old Graham, who sailed to London last week to organize another spiritual crusade next year in Britain); in Asheville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 20, 1964 | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

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