Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From 1930 to 1952, complained Lowe, he smoked more than two packs of cigarettes a day. Then he got cancer. His right lung was removed at the very time when, at nearby Barnes Hospital, Drs. Evarts Graham and Ernest Wynder were doing experiments on mice with tobacco tar (TIME, Nov. 30). In suing (for breach of warranty) the four companies whose brands he said he had smoked and the chain store where he bought them,* Lowe said that he had "accepted the defendants' public assurances that their cigarettes were free from harmful substances...
...This is standing procedure for cutting down the crowds that head toward sold-out stadiums for cup finals and big football matches. But the multitudes on their way to Harringay Arena in North London last week were not out for fun and games. They were flocking to hear Billy Graham's call to salvation...
...biggest, best-heard call in Evangelist Graham's career. Night after night, after 11,000 were seated and another 1,000 allowed to stand, thousands more were turned away. So many people came on the first Saturday that Graham decided to make three-meeting Saturdays a permanent feature of his three-month crusade. Other plans to deal with the overflow: midweek matinee meetings, subsidiary meetings in movie houses to be toured by Graham, loudspeakers in nearby Harringay Stadium on the five nights a week when there are no dog races...
...Graham's audiences come by chartered bus and train from all over England. To be sure that Londoners get their fair share of seats, the Graham crusaders have limited out-of-town bookings to 4,000 seats nightly; last week they were three days behind in handling mail reservations, and the out-of-town allotments were taken up solidly through mid-April...
Expiration Date. In Graham, N.C., Register of Deeds J. G. Tingen received a year-old marriage license in the mail with a note: "I'm sorry to have to send this paper back, but I have been stood...