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...Evangelist Billy Graham, 35, arrived in London to conduct his own special blitz against sin. An audience of over 7,000 filled Albert Hall to hear his sermon. The Graham theme: "I am absolutely convinced that we are living in an hour just before the judgment of God strikes." His score for the first evening: seven converts...
...outcry was loud and prompt. Like many a medical evangelist, Dr. Lincoln has a handful of devoted disciples. Among them: New Hampshire's Senator Charles W. Tobey.* "Smash 'em right in the eyes!" howled Tobey when he heard what the medical society had done. "Lick 'em like a custard! They're crucifying a wonderful man-a genius." By no coincidence, Tobey is one of Lincoln's patients; he insists on getting the bacteriophage treatment three or four times a week in the office of Capitol Physician George Calver. He says that it has considerably reduced...
Besides preaching at other key points in town, Evangelist Graham held daily noontime prayer sessions in the Pentagon auditorium. The response he got there surprised him. "Never in my whole religious experience," said Billy, "have I seen such a hunger for religion as at the Pentagon...
...place he once called "the most sinful city" he had ever visited, Washington, D.C. has lent Evangelist Billy Graham a pretty respectful ear. By last week, at the end of a nine-week prayer "crusade" there, Billy had preached to audiences totaling 500,000 people.*Recorded conversions...
Billy hopes eventually to see every candidate for the presidency, including Truman: "I want to give them the moral side of the thing. Of course, I do not intend to endorse any candidate." High on Evangelist Graham's agenda for March: 1) an address to 500 British ministers in Westminster Abbey, 2) a visit to France, where he hopes to chat with Ike Eisenhower...