Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theory. Over the season, opponents have been learning that the only way to stop the Browns is to stop both passing Quarterback Otto Graham and line-smashing Fullback Marion Motley. This is not simple. More often than they like to remember, defending linemen have sifted through to smear Passer Graham, found themselves mousetrapped behind the line of scrimmage while 235-lb. Fullback Motley crushed downfield with the ball...
...Atlanta, Evangelist Billy Graham (TIME, Nov. 14, 1949 et seq.) was well under way with a soul-saving campaign in the Ponce de Leon ballpark fitted out to accommodate more than 20,000 people. With flashing eyes and flailing arms, the well-dressed young (32) successor to Billy Sunday was wringing fervent amens and penitence from his audience night after night. Mankind now stands on the brink of destruction, he warned his listeners. "Unless God sends a great awakening to the world, my two little girls will never see high school...
...battle was for the middle, though the oratory sounded as if it were for the extremes. The Republicans most in trouble, including some Midwesterners who normally might be expected to coast in, were generally those on the outer limits of the right. On the left, Senators Claude Pepper, Frank Graham and Glen Taylor had already gone down to defeat, and in California, Helen Gahagan Douglas was having a hard time living down her past votes with the same crowd. Many Democrats had ducked, or discarded, such controversial notions as the Brannan Plan or socialized medicine in their scramble...
...recording called I'm Praying to St. Christopher ("who watches land and sea, To keep you, darling, safe from harm wherever you may be"). Also riding high on the spiritual wave: It's No Secret ("what God can do"), by Cowboy-Singer Stuart Hamblen, a recent Billy Graham convert. Columbia has just released a musical version of the 23rd Psalm sung by Vocalist Doris Day. Scheduled: The House Where I Worship, sung by Rosemary Clooney and Guy Mitchell...
...Manhattan, the roughhouse New York Giants, 17-13, over the powerhouse Cleveland Browns, by limiting Cleveland Passer Otto Graham...