Word: grahamism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Texas. Former U.S. Senator Price Daniel, taking over a scandal-splotched administration from Governor Allan Shivers, invited Evangelist Billy Graham to Austin for a precedent-making prayer breakfast, at which Democrat Daniel announced that he would apply "Christian principles to problems of government and politics." His ambition, even greater than being President of the U.S., said Daniel with tears welling in his eyes, "is to be a good governor for all the people of Texas...
Cineminx Terry Moore, 28, married last February to well-to-do Insurance Man Eugene McGrath, 34, was traipsing between South America and California last week, after confiding to Hollywood Gossipist Sheilah Graham that a going marriage is based on the little things that count. Said Terry: "For our first-month anniversary, Gene gave me diamond earrings. The next month, a gold bracelet and a solid gold carryall. Third month, a race horse. Fourth, a five-carat diamond ring. Next, a diamond bracelet from Tiffany's. The sixth-month anniversary, there was a blue Cadillac Eldorado waiting outside the door...
Broadway Invasion. All three hits have brought national fame to their companies. Later this month Carmen Capalbo and Stanley Chase, the 29-year-old producers of The Threepenny Opera, will invade Broadway with the world première of Graham Greene's The Potting Shed, follow up with a New York premiere of O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten. After seeing their Iceman, O'Neill's widow asked Director Jose Quintero and associates to stage the profitable Broadway premiere of Long Day's Journey into Night. 'Take a Giant Step, which...
...Divorced. By Sheilah Graham, aging (fiftyish) blonde Hollywood gossipist, onetime London chorus girl and great and good friend of the late Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald: Wojciechowicz Stanley ("Bow Wow") Wojtkiewicz, 40, sometime athletic director; after four years of marriage, one of separation, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Died. John Gilbert (Jack) Graham, 24, moody gadgeteer who blew up 44 people, including his mother, aboard a United Air Lines DC-6B northbound from Denver on Nov. 1, 1955, with a dynamite time bomb he planted in his mother's luggage in the hope of collecting $37,500 in flight-insurance money; by the judgment of his peers (cyanide gas poisoning); in the gas chamber at the Colorado Penitentiary, Canon City. Fatalist Graham's observation before he was executed: "As far as feeling remorse for those people, I don't. I can't help...