Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Graham told the American College of Chest Physicians. "More study is needed," protested a spokesman for the cigarette industry. But many lay men and women were quickly convinced. After the statistics hit Page One across the nation last week, common stocks of the big five cigarette manufacturers dropped as much as 4 points, preferred stocks even more, and buyers invaded pipe shops to buy experimental briars and fancy smoking mixtures. In Manhattan, Dunhill's expensive smoking emporium on Fifth Avenue reported that its stock of slim little ladies' pipes, enough to last several months at the old sales...
Evangelist Billy Graham, fresh from a phenomenal tour of Great Britain and Scandinavia, invaded West Germany last week to spread the word. Flying into Frankfurt, he first kicked up a flurry of newspaper headlines with some strong words about material affairs. "Germany must be given the latest and most powerful weapons as a deterrent to war . . . " he said. France, Graham added, was comparable to "a watch without a mainspring . . . The French just sin and sin, and get weaker...
...Later, Graham had to soften his words. "I am here on a spiritual mission, not a political one," he explained. But it detracted little from his success. In Düsseldorf, three-color posters proclaimed: 75O SINGERS, 200 TRUMPETS AND BILLY
...GRAHAM, and the response was so great the meeting had to be switched from a 12,000-capacity ice stadium to a soccer stadium big enough...
...evangelist strode out onto the platform in dignified, double-breasted blue serge to speak his message. With him stood an interpreter, 27-year-old Wilfred Sybell, a German student at Chicago's Moody Bible Institute, who not only rendered Graham's tense message into German, phrase by phrase, but matched every Graham step and gesture. He pounded the Bible when Billy pounded, pointed to heaven when Billy pointed...