Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Billy Graham [TIME, Nov. 17] has been mightily used by God and is deserving of this recognition from a secular magazine...
...Catholic Club presents Dom Aelred Graham, O.S.B., Prior of St. Gregory's Priory, Portsmouth, R.I., as the second speaker in its series of lecture-meetings. Father Aelred will talk on "Catholicism and the World Today" at 8 p.m., in Emerson...
OFFSTAGE, Billy Graham chews his nails, snaps his fingers and paces the floor. He does not smoke or drink anything stronger than buttermilk. For recreation, he plays golf (middle 90s), drives his car at high speeds, fishes, reads Zane Grey westerns, and talks a blue streak. Inevitably, Billy's closest companions are members of his ten-man team, six of whom, including the pressagent, are also ministers. (His wife seldom travels with him.) A close-knit and devoted group, they handle the organizational details, and do their best to buffer Billy from the constant press of the crowd. They...
...occasional fits of depression, Billy reproaches himself and his team for vainglory, for giving the credit to Graham rather than God; he lives in private foreboding that a wrathful Lord may some day punish him by turning his magic lips to clay. In red ink Billy's press releases carry a self-humbling reminder: "Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Zechariah...
Eleven months Billy labors; the twelfth he rests with his wife, three daughters and baby boy, and a Great Pyrenees dog named Belshazzar. The Graham family lives in a six-room, grey stone house in Montreal, N.C. with picture windows, rhododendrons, a hammock by a mountain stream, a TV set, and a log fence to keep out nosy tourists. But the Rev. William Franklin Graham is at his happiest when he is at his busiest and loneliest: on the platform in a vast amphitheater, or drawling into a mike the Tarheel tag line to his ABC broadcast, "May the Lord...