Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard T. Sutcliffe, associate director of press, radio & television for the United Lutheran Church in Amer ica, broadcast his list of the ten top religious news stories of 1955: 1) the illness, recovery and vision of Pope Pius XII, 2) Christian missionaries released by Red China, 3) Evangelist Billy Graham's sweep of Western Europe, 4) Dictator Peron's "failure to choke Argentine Roman Catholics," 5) Princess Margaret's stand for the "indissolubility" of Christian marriage, 6) Lutheran heresy trials, 7) collapse of negotiations for the proposed merger between northern and southern Presbyterians, 8) indecision in some...
...Russian newsmen back behind the Iron Curtain after a 33-day junket through the U.S. (TIME, Oct. 31). The seven junketeers managed to needle the U.S. in their reports. They noted and disapproved a "greed for profit." ("A unique means of making a profit is shown by Jack Graham, who blew up his mother and a plane for the insurance.") They rapped U.S. TV for showing too many commercials ("Only a stone sphinx could stick to one of these performances to the very end"). But they gave readers of Pravda, Izvestia and other leading Soviet journals the friendliest, most appreciative...
June. Paul Tillich will turn down the presidency of Harvard to become a speech writer for Billy Graham. The Board of Overseers will deny plans for an eighth house while construction proceeds. The Lowell House bells will play Professor Piston's arrangement of "Sixteen Tons." Polly Adler will deny that there is a new house at Harvard. Liberace will volunteer to lecture at Harvard, claiming "I'm sure they'll love...
...Night Shift. The day hospital, directed by Dr. Graham Taylor, draws its in-and-out patients from all walks of life...
...Much of the sexual irregularity of today may ... be caused neither by wickedness nor by ignorance, but by the fact that man's creative instinct is being denied its proper channels." ¶ Winding up a ten-day campaign at Cambridge (TIME, Nov. 21) and Oxford Universities, Evangelist Billy Graham preached to an Oxford congregation packed so tightly into St. Aldate's Church that students could not kneel to pray...