Word: grahamism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rising tide of inflation is lapping at movieland's loftiest crags, according to Gossipist Sheilah Graham, who cheerfully prattled: "Mickey Rooney will try marriage again with [fourth] wife Elaine. With the high cost of alimony, Hollywood males are finding it cheaper to reconcile...
Evangelist Billy Graham was unwarily inspecting his flock of three sheep near his North Carolina mountain home. A few seconds later, Farmer Graham picked himself up, cut and bruised, some fifty feet down the mountainside. The winner: a surly Suffolk ram, scoring three hits, no errors. Said Billy, from his bed of pain: "I turned the other cheek...
Hard Work. Paar's peculiar combination of casual intensity and wit has caused one fan to call him "a cross between Billy Graham and Fred Allen." He cracks that he is "Lawrence Welk without music." Not far beneath his self-deprecating, unruffled exterior is a sensitive, often defensive man whose slight-looking build (6 ft., 174 Ibs.) shoulders a sizeable chip. Proclaiming his motto to be "Leave everybody to hell alone," Paar lives quietly with his second wife, a daughter, 8, and swimming pool in suburban Bronxville, N.Y. "I'm so lovable," Jack says. ". . . There have been...
...from many countries, the conferees share a common belief: the prosperity and strength of the free world are chiefly products of the initiative and resourcefulness of the individual working through the institutions of private enterprise. A few of the men who share this belief: Canada's Gordon Graham, India's G. D. Birla, Belgium's Paul Van Zeeland, Iran's A. H. Ebtehaj, Brazil's Walther Moreira Salles. Conference chairman will be TIME'S Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce...
...housewarming present, the U.S. sponsored the Congress Hall's first week's program: dedication ceremony with speeches by Clare Boothe Luce and Ambassador David K. Bruce, a Julliard String Quartet concert, a performance by Dancer Martha Graham, and seven American one-act plays. The show was pulling East Berliners over the border. And so was the new Congress Hall itself, along with the nearby Hansa district housing projects by such designers as Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, U.S. Architect Walter Gropius and Finland's Alvar Aalto (TIME, April 30, 1956). Using the new buildings as the site...