Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evangelist Billy Sunday's likeliest successor was hard at work last week rounding up souls in the South. With a final rally that overflowed the 36,000-capacity University of South Carolina football stadium, hawk-nosed, handsome Evangelist Billy Graham climaxed a three-week revival at Columbia, S.C. that had stirred a total of 7,000 people to make "decisions for Christ...
...Angeles (TIME, Nov. 14), Billy Graham worked hard for the Lord. Flailing his arms, crouching and pointing, coiling his big (6 ft. 2 in.) frame around the Bible he read from, or passionately wrestling with the microphone, he gave his audiences not a moment's emotional letup. But to oldtimers who remembered another generation of revivalists-Sam Jones, Gypsy Smith, Sunday himself-Graham and his entourage looked disturbingly like something out of Hollywood. His sharply cut double-breasted suits and high-decibel ties, like those of his Co-Evangelist Grady Wilson, 30, and black-haired, 26-year-old Platform...
...Puff Graham." Thirty-one-year-old Billy Graham has been preaching ever since he was converted 14 years ago at a revival meeting in his home town, Charlotte, N.C. He became a revivalist only five years ago, and his big break did not come until last fall in California. His Los Angeles audiences were no more than moderately large until his activities suddenly attracted the attention of William Randolph Hearst. At a meeting one evening, says Graham, he noticed "reporters and cameramen crawling all over the place. One of them told me they had had a memo from Mr. Hearst...
...Graham calls himself "Dr." on the strength of two honorary degrees-a D.D. from King's College at New Castle, Del. and a D. Hum. from Fundamentalist, unaccredited Bob Jones University at Greenville, S.C. He also holds an A.B. from straitlaced Wheaton College, where he majored in Physical and Cultural Anthropology. Currently he is paid $8,500 a year as president of Northwestern Schools at Minneapolis, Minn., where he spends about a fifth of his time...
...Graham was ordained a Southern Baptist minister in 1939 when, evangelizing at a small Baptist church in Palatka, Fla., he was told that he could not continue the meeting unless he became a Baptist. But his education and upbringing were Calvinist, and his preaching still shows it. Last week he treated his predominantly middle-aged audiences to first-hand glimpses of Heaven, Hell and Judgment...