Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Campaign's Head. If the heart of the crusade is Madison Square Garden, its head is a seven-room suite in Times Square where 35 permanent staff members, 30 temporary employees and more than 200 volunteer clerical workers control a hectically complex organism. Automatic typewriters clack out letters appealing for prayer; duplicating machines roll out instructions and memorandums. On wall maps of New York, the U.S. and the world, red, blue and green pins and tapes spot churches (1,510 in Greater New York) and prayer groups supporting the campaign. Staff members: 1) channel the activities...
...York; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of New York." The words were the prophet Isaiah's-about Sodom and Gomorrah-but the voice was the Southern smoothness of Billy Graham coming over the 18 loudspeakers in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The voice beat upon more than 18,000 people -seekers and servers of the Lord as well as the merely curious-and it etched itself upon the sliding ribbons of the tape recorders set up by radiomen. The evangelist of the mid-century set out last week on his toughest "crusade...
That is how the show biz weekly Variety good-humoredly told its readers about an extraordinary show that opens in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden this week: Evangelist Billy Graham's crusade for New York, a city he has sometimes regarded as a kind of Gomorrah-on-Hudson. Variety noted admiringly that "for sheer activity, traffic and buzz," his advance office in Manhattan "compares with the William Morris Agency," predicted that the crusade would be the biggest "full-chorus, hallelujah, oldtime religion, monster revival" since Billy Sunday's invasion of New York in 1917. Figures supplied...
More than 500 billboards, thousands of orange-and-black bumper tags and regular TV and radio announcements proclaimed Graham's advent. In Madison Square Garden, still flavored with the tang of the recently departed circus, huge, fragrant vanloads of flowers were unloaded. For Billy, who calls himself "the Lord's master of ceremonies," carpenters hoisted a towering pulpit. "Every seat will be a good seat . . . There'll be nothing between him and you," a crusade official explained. "We always design it that...
What, asks the Century rhetorically, is wrong with Billy? "Here is something hugely religious, and everybody is religious like everybody else, so why not go to the Garden? They all read Norman Vincent Peale and they all watch Bishop Sheen and they all go to the big Easter showing of The Ten Commandments, so why not go to the Garden...