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Speak of the devil. First Evangelist Billy Graham, in England for a 21-day revival on the Oxbridge campuses, slipped in his bathtub, bruising ribs and brewing a painful case of pleurisy. Then, as an overflow audience of 20,000 jammed Oxford's scruffy town hall to hear a Southern-drawled sermon on sin, a number of students decided to be sophomoric. Some heckled Graham as a fascist, others set off the hall's fire alarm and cut closed-circuit TV cables that were carrying his message to 5,000 listeners in five other auditoriums. The preacher...
...dilletantes. Beginning at 6:15 a.m., with half an hour of individual meditation--"quiet time" in Urbana lingo the participant hustles through several days of intensive bible study, speeches, workshops, slide shows and prayer groups, all centered on the basics of missionary work. Billy Graham, the well-known television evangelist, headlined the speakers line-up at Urbana. Famous missionaries from Argentina to Kenya joined Graham on the pulpit, exhorting the participants to consider church work as a career. "The whole thing can really blow you mind," Rozzell said solemly...
DIVORCED. Actress Candy Clark, 32, blond confection in American Graffiti; and Marjoe Gortner, 35, child evangelist turned actor; after 20 months of marriage, eleven of them spent apart; in Los Angeles...
...months he had waited patiently in the wings, as nine other Republicans entered the race without dislodging him from his position at the head of the pack. Last week Ronald Reagan, the once fervent evangelist of the political right, finally made his move. He did so in one of the nation's few citadels of G.O.P. moderation: New York City. As a spotlight redolent of Hollywood memories illuminated his pinkish cheeks and slightly graying temples, the still handsome candidate declared, "I am here tonight to announce my intention to seek the Republican nomination for President of the United States...
Just Above My Head traces the emotional and spiritual journeys of Arthur Montana, a gospel singer, and Julia Miller, a child evangelist, as seen through the eyes of Arthur's older brother Hall. Hall recounts Arthur's involvement with the Civil Rights Movement, Julia's fall from the ministry and subsequent exploitation by her father, Arthur's homosexual relationship with Julia's pianist brother Jimmy, and Arthur's mysterious death at the peak of his fame. The novel reads as if authored by Hall in an effort to understand his brother's life as an artist, in order to legitimize...