Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the limit allowed each passenger. When the ticket agent told her she would have to pay $27 for the excess baggage, the mother, Mrs. Daisie King, turned to her son and said, "Thirty-seven Lbs. -do you think I'll need all this?" Replied the son, Jack Graham: "Yes, Mother, I'm 'sure you will need it." Mrs. King was going to Alaska to visit her married daughter, and she would need a lot of warm clothes...
...senior proctor has warned undergraduates that Billy Graham must not be kidnaped when he arrives in Cambridge today." This stern warning in the varsity newspaper greeted Evangelist Graham when he arrived for a week-long revival that was certainly one of the strangest weeks ever known by Cambridge, whose attitude toward religion has long been intellectual, skeptical, or slightly pained...
Evangelist Graham's sponsor was CICCU-the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union-called "Kick You" by both its friends and enemies. The 400 undergraduate members stimulate many of their fellow students and dons to snorts of irritation at their frankly anti-intellectual attitude and their assurance that they alone have the Gospel of Christ. "Why, didn't you know?" said one classics student last week. "In Cambridge, Christ is the property of CICCU." "But you can't enter into CICCU's Christ," said another, "because they have only one part of Him-the crucified part...
...Hara-Kiri. When Billy Graham accepted CICCU's invitation to Cambridge last August (he insisted on paying his own expenses), there was a flurry of nattering pro and con in the letters columns of the Times. "The recent increase of fundamentalism among university students cannot but cause concern," wrote an Anglican canon. "Universities exist for the advancement of learning. On that basis, therefore, can fundamentalism claim a hearing at Cambridge...
What the Bible Says. The Billy Graham who walked into Great Saint Mary's for his first preaching session was a long way from Georgia, or even from London's Harringay Arena. There was no singing, no platform to pace, no lapel microphone,' no special lighting. Dressed in a black academic gown with the red, green and gold hood of an honorary doctor of laws (Houghton College, N.Y., '50), he stood in the cramped quarters of the pulpit before a crowd of 1,200 which had left behind an overflow queue two blocks long. When...