Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last week the doctors finally got their chance. The President woke up feeling poorly, and called for Major General Wallace Graham, his personal physician. Dr. Graham found that he had a low fever, decided he had contracted a mild virus infection-his first illness, beyond simple colds, since becoming President. He was asked to stay in bed. Eyeing the patient, the doctor also decided that it was time to make him hold still for a thorough physical checkup...
Among the hundreds of contemporary abstractionists showing at Venice, there are a handful of clever artists. Stuart Davis, for one, soups up the American pavilion with designs as piercing and brassy as a Louis Armstrong high note. Lording it over the British pavilion are Graham Sutherland's pictures of what look like livid innards strung up on brambles. Derived from Picasso's "Tomato Plant Period" of a decade ago, they are equally forceful and unpleasant...
...Dallas, where such Hollywood rooters as Producer David O. Selznick and Cinemactor Ronald Reagan tried to cheer up some 1,000 low-grossing movie exhibitors at a morale meeting, Evangelist Billy Graham popped in with an idea for curing the industry's ailments. Cried Graham: "Take sex and crime out of the movies. We've had so much sex in this country till we're sick to death of it. That's why people stay away. Decent people are ashamed...
Highlight of the day will be the graduate schools' alumni luncheon on the Harkness quadrangle. Speakers will be Leonard president of Tufts and secretary-elect of the Smithsonian Institute, and Phillip L. Graham, publisher of the Washington Post. President Conant will introduce both men. The luncheon will be sponsored jointly by the Law School Alumni Association and the Foundation for Advanced Study and Research...
...Most famous Bob Jones alumnus: Evangelist Billy Graham...