Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sagitarius. New England legislators will call an end to daylight saving time when cows stop giving milk on account of darkness. Billy Graham will ask, in a press interview, "What's the Harvard Divinity School?" reducing considerably the odds on him as the new dean. A U.S. plane will be shot down...
Deceptive Preview. It was a special victory for Coach Paul Brown of the Browns, a cold, hard perfectionist who handles every game as if it were a strategic contest of coaches' brains. Although his crack passer and quarterback, Otto Graham, knows as much football as any player in the business, Brown minutely directs the strategy. He has won five straight eastern titles, but none of these was followed by a national championship...
...Cleveland 33. On the next play, Detroit lost the ball on a fumble; on the next Cleveland lost it on an interception. Detroit scored first, on a 36-yard field goal by Halfback Doak Walker. After that it was almost all Cleveland, and almost all Otto ("Ottomatic") Graham...
Detroit's Last Gasp. It was probably the best football day that Graham ever had. Cleveland's first two touchdowns came on Graham passes-the first scoring passes he had ever registered against Detroit in a league or championship game...
Indefatigable Evangelist Billy Graham paused at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel long enough to receive the Salvation Army's seventh annual citation for his "boundless spirit and unfailing faith." Then, after announcing that he is off to Europe in March for a six-month preaching tour, he headed for Georgia to relax for three days at Augusta's National Golf Club, a favorite course of President Eisenhower. Asked if he planned to play a round with Ike, Graham, whose scores hover in the so-so 90s, laughed and said: "I don't play that good...