Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Imperfect Wisdom. For five hours, with the White House turning on the heat and helping to direct the strategy, Minnesota's civil-righteous young Hubert Humphrey, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, New York's Herbert Lehman and North Carolina's lame duck Frank Graham took turns lecturing against the bill. Their arguments were a direct paraphrase of Harry Truman's message...
Other churchmen, led by Canon Henry Graham, commended this "sensible custom." The result was a typical British compromise: a vote to delete all reference to ash-scattering from the new church law. This would neither prohibit the custom nor give it full and absolute sanction...
...making of a popular literary reputation, for Ford's publisher has spared no pains to provide his forgotten man with a general's escort of trumpeters: "the great English novelist of his time" (Allen Tate); "no novelist of this century more likely to live" (Graham Greene); "a veritable Kanchenjunga* among the current molehills" (Herschel Brickell...
Evangelist Billy Graham, 31 (TIME, March 20), was still preaching to the biggest congregations in the U.S. Winding up a six-week revival meeting last week in a specially erected tabernacle in Portland, Ore., he had run up an amazing record: 632,000 attendance, 8,000 conversions. It seemed to be the biggest evangelistic campaign since the late Billy Sunday drew 1,500,000 people in New York 33 years ago. Next Graham vineyard: Minneapolis...
...their hands at everything from formal French sonnets to clerihews. Prizes range from one to six guineas ($2.94 to $17.64). In one competition, calling for parodies of the style of any novelist named Green or Greene, third prize (one guinea) went to "M. Wilkinson" for his parody of Novelist Graham Greene. "M. Wilkinson" turned out to be Novelist Greene himself, who complained that two other entries under different pseudonyms had won him no prizes...