Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coach Graham Taylor commented: "This is the finest result we've ever had in big-league racing," and went on to praise Neil Dixon, John Hart, and Jim Lawson, who finished eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth respectively in the 55-man field. Their times were 60 minutes 11 seconds, 60 minutes 13 seconds, and 60 minutes 22 seconds, respectively...
...London's Tate Gallery, the public had a chance to see the second portrait done by British Landscape Painter Graham Sutherland: a study of walnut-faced Publisher Lord Beaverbrook in a grimly pleasant mood. The Beaver agreed to sit for the portrait, a 72nd birthday present from his staff last year, after he saw and admired Sutherland's first attempt at portraiture: a haggard, cynical Somerset Maugham...
With these words Evangelist Billy Graham moved in on Washington, D.C. for the first time in his career, to hold a five-week "crusade" of revival meetings. As a concession to Washington's conservative tastes, Preacher Billy toned down his tailoring, took the pulpit at the National Guard Armory last week wearing a sober blue double-breasted suit. But he gave Washington the same high-tension preaching show that has rocked auditoriums in the West and South...
...first day of the crusade, a Sunday, Evangelist Graham drew a crowd of more than 10,000. "The Bible says we're all sinners," Billy told them. "That's the reason you have cheating among the finest boys of America at West Point. That's the reason you have irregularities in high places. It's because we're all sinners." Before the meeting was over, 205 Washingtonians walked up the aisle to answer Billy's call. It was the largest number of converts for an opening day in Billy's history...
After his big first-day turnout, Evangelist Graham drew a mild reminder about Washington's fire laws, which limit the armory's capacity to 5,310. (Said Billy: "Personally, I know that religious audiences of this kind don't smoke.") For the rest of the week, however, Washingtonians kept their attendance down to 5,000 or 6,000 a night-a steady response, but not yet comparable to last year's 13,000 a night in Seattle...