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...Dallas, where such Hollywood rooters as Producer David O. Selznick and Cinemactor Ronald Reagan tried to cheer up some 1,000 low-grossing movie exhibitors at a morale meeting, Evangelist Billy Graham popped in with an idea for curing the industry's ailments. Cried Graham: "Take sex and crime out of the movies. We've had so much sex in this country till we're sick to death of it. That's why people stay away. Decent people are ashamed...
...years, Bob Jones University has demonstrated that it is possible to take the enthusiasm of a religious revival, transfer it to a campus, and sustain it without missing a beat. The school was founded in 1927 when Bob Jones Sr., a veteran evangelist, decided that the "sawdust aisle" of the camp meeting was really just the beginning of a Christian education. With $25,000 in contributions and savings, he set up a college designed to be "uncompromisingly orthodox and definitely and spiritually evangelistic . . . to witness for and win people to the Lord Jesus Christ." He had 88 students...
...Most famous Bob Jones alumnus: Evangelist Billy Graham...
...days, the Rev. Jesse J. Ivie, a traveling Ozarks evangelist, fasted in his cottage at Cherryville, Mo., hoping that his sacrifice would bring him a special sign from God (TIME, June 9). He refused to see doctors, slowly grew weaker. "If the Lord wants me to die," he said, "I'm ready to go." This week, surrounded by his praying family, Evangelist Ivie died...
This week, after more than 40 days of fasting, Evangelist Ivie, still hoping for a sign from God, prayed weakly in his bedroom. Hollow-cheeked (he has lost about 30 Ibs.), he gave his family strict orders that no doctor is to be called, even if he loses consciousness. "If the Lord wants me to die," he said, "I'm ready...