Word: grahamism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came closest to unburdening himself when he told some of New Delhi's staunchest citizens: "I have fallen in love with India. I intend to become an Indian citizen and not return to Italy." The week's developments were perhaps best summed up by Hollywood Pundit Sheilah Graham: "I'm inclined to believe that there is trouble in [Ingrid's] marriage with Rossellini...
Midway in his soul-saving New York crusade, Evangelist Billy Graham will go on TV. This Saturday (8-9 p.m., E.D.T.) on the ABC network, straight from Madison Square Garden, a Graham meeting will be telecast for the first time in the U.S. Cost of the program: $300,000, underwritten by Billy's current campaign backers. After that, muses Graham hopefully, he would like to launch a 26-week religious TV extravaganza. Its sponsors would have to be content with institutional plugs, no hard sell. Though one of the hottest salesmen ever to push intangibles, Billy admits: "It would...
Squat, pudgy Mickey Cohen, 45, proved a man of few words when pressed on his friendliness for Billy Graham ("I just hope and feel the feeling is likewise between Billy and I")* or his past weakness for killing people ("I have killed no man that in the first place didn't deserve killing by the standards of our way of life"). When Wallace urged him to name the crooked politicians who protected his gambling rackets, Cohen demurred: "That is not my way of life, Mike...
...Graham, who has known (and prayed for) Cohen since 1949, once said of him: "He 'has the makings of one of the greatest gospel preachers of all time...
Opening night of the crusade netted 704 decisions for Christ-a record for the start of any Graham campaign in the U.S. The first week brought 2,613 to the Inquiry Tent. "It takes us about two weeks to get established in a city," says Billy. "Then more and more people begin to come. And the thing that brings them isn't the preaching. It's the fact that all through the city more and more people are going to be hearing from people who have found God here in the Garden. And people want God. So they...