Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Billy Graham wound up his six-week crusade in Glasgow last week, and the city he had picked as "the most sinful in Great Britain" was leavened by 16,236 "decisions for Christ" (pledges that may lead to conversion). More than 670,000 Glaswegians came to hear him in Kelvin Hall, and for the last nine days his voice was piped to some 700 churches, schoolhouses and town halls. Among these remote listeners, 13,422 more made decisions. Said an Irish newspaper: "Billy Graham has taken Ireland by storm and he hasn't even set foot in the country...
...bringing the film version of Graham Greene's novel to New England for the first time, the Brattle has done local moviegoers a considerable favor. Although Leslie Storm's adaptation of the book does not provide high excitement and seems conscientiously to shun dramatic effect, it results in a picture that is severely honest and thought-provoking. The care with which director George More O'Ferrall and his cast have avoided any trace of trace of sentimentality helps convey to the screen the deeply depressing quality of Greene's novel...
...religious tone continues in PEOPLE with a reference to Billy Graham's understandable reluctance to include man's dumb friends in his ministrations . . . Follows the RELIGION section. Good taste prohibits critical comment of other people's devotional gymnastics . . . CINEMA includes a review of a minister's filmed biography. Boy, oh boy, did you go overboard! We cannot help but admire the fine attitude of your reviewer, who bewails the fact that "the story has depressingly little to say about religion . . ." You strike the final blow for the church in BOOKS-by printing the miserable caricature...
Although it was held in the Commonwealth Armory instead of a tent and sponsored by General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice instead of Billy Graham, "Motorama of 1955" could be best described as a revival meeting. To the 150,000 Bostonians who made a pilgrimage to the Armory over the weekend the 100 exhibits were so many sacred objects. Their devotion was often too deep to remain silent, and some of them hoped against against hope that Providence (or Detroit) might see fit to bestow one of these blessings on their family...
...would seem on first glance that he has wasted his ability on a collection of early twentieth century writers who are rapidly becoming obscure. Of his five novelists, only Jack London and Theodore Dreiser have achieved any sort of place in literature, while the following of David Graham Phillips, Frank Norris, and Robert Herrick is meagre at best...