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...What Europe needs is a spiritual Marshall Plan," says the institute's founder and principal, Frederick H. Squire. Evangelist Squire, 46, began saving souls at the age of ten as a soprano cornetist in the Salvation Army. He spent twelve years in the Army, and in 1930, he set out to tour Britain as a free-lance evangelist. As a welfare worker on the Continent after World War II, Squire was shocked at the spiritual as well as physical deprivation the Nazis had left behind them; when he returned to England he set up a school especially to train...
...Evangelist Squire, who has made 15 trips to the Continent in the past two years, will soon head for Berlin to find other young people for his institute. Says he: "We've only begun to fight for Christianity behind the Iron Curtain...
...Atlanta, Evangelist Billy Graham (TIME, Nov. 14, 1949 et seq.) was well under way with a soul-saving campaign in the Ponce de Leon ballpark fitted out to accommodate more than 20,000 people. With flashing eyes and flailing arms, the well-dressed young (32) successor to Billy Sunday was wringing fervent amens and penitence from his audience night after night. Mankind now stands on the brink of destruction, he warned his listeners. "Unless God sends a great awakening to the world, my two little girls will never see high school...
...Southern California track star and 1936 Olympic runner, suffered mistreatment in Japanese prisoner of war camps. Armed with a list of his persecutors supplied by the War Crimes Commission, he arrived in Japan last week. But vengeance was not Lou Zamperini's purpose. Converted last year by Evangelist Billy Graham. Zamperini says he hopes that he can find his captors and convert them to Christianity as part of a two-month tour of Japan under the auspices of the International Youth for Christ movement...
...Evangelist Billy Graham, 31 (TIME, March 20), was still preaching to the biggest congregations in the U.S. Winding up a six-week revival meeting last week in a specially erected tabernacle in Portland, Ore., he had run up an amazing record: 632,000 attendance, 8,000 conversions. It seemed to be the biggest evangelistic campaign since the late Billy Sunday drew 1,500,000 people in New York 33 years ago. Next Graham vineyard: Minneapolis...