Word: grahamism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michigan, CBS's The Seven Lively Arts this week firmly established itself as one of the season's brightest newcomers with The Revivalists, a hallelujah-breathing documentary film on militant evangelism. From the husky-voiced zeal of Billy Sunday to the polished fervor of Billy Graham, the camera caught arresting glimpses of believers throbbing with the joy of religion. A Negro named Cat-Iron Carradino croaked a hymn and plucked his guitar as he carried the message down Tin Can Alley in Natchez, Miss. The face of Negro Singer Mahalia Jackson seemed to take on a celestial glow...
...Billy Graham's five-month New York Crusade, which officially closed last week with a rally attended by 40,000 at Manhattan's Polo Grounds, drew audiences totaling 2,145.000 and resulted in 60,577 "decisions for Christ...
When this sort of thing was offered to U.S. moviegoers in the first film version (1942) of Graham Greene's thriller, This Gun for Hire, many of them were deeply impressed. It was felt that Hollywood had passed a milestone and that He (Alan Ladd) and She (Veronica Lake) were the latest and the greatest. In the interval, however, most customers have learned, from Hollywood's mistakes, the difference between the touchingly insane and the pathetically inane, and this remake is less apt to frazzle nerves than to tickle funny bones...
...Pathet Lao forces after the Geneva conference. The basically pro-Western government of Premier Souvanna Phouma has shown itself increasingly aware of the extent to which both corruption and the artificial exchange rate are damaging both Laos and the U.S. attempts to aid it. Last week U.S. Ambassador J. Graham Parsons flew back from Washington to his post in Vientiane to sit down with Laotian officials and work out plans for 1) establishing a realistic rate of exchange, and 2) helping Laos get a larger real share of the benefits it is entitled...
...William L. Graham, 46, back from starting a brush fire for capitalism with his modest Private Enterprises Inc. in India (TIME, Aug. 12), who in three days in San Francisco lined up a U.S. fund of $250,000 and got an offer from Indian Industrialist and Banker G. D. Birla to match the sum, thus making half a million dollars available for small business ventures in India...