Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press had been told that the complete entourage would arrive at the rear, but two members of the Advisory Committee -- Harriman and Mrs. Philip Graham, president of The Washington Post -- diverted their attention while the rest of the party entered by the main door...
...affairs of youth. She had other thoughts on her mind last week in Manhattan, however, where she looked on fondly as Actor George Hamilton, 27, played a few location scenes for a film called Jack of Diamonds. As George flew off to Europe for more filming, Hollywood Gossip Sheilah Graham figured the current romantic odds: "I have $10 that says yes. She quite obviously adores him. At the other end of the bet is his pressagent, who is wagering $100 that the marriage will not come...
Determined to appear at least, Clark persuaded BRM officials to lend him a backup three-liter that belonged to BRM's own racing team of Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart. Mechanics worked all night installing the engine in Jim's Lotus; the job was not completed until ten minutes before race time. With no chance to test the engine, Jim figured that his chances of winning-or even of finishing the 248-mile race-were about 1,000 to one. "It was 30 laps before I tried to put on any pressure to see what would happen...
...Deighton and John le Carre have written such spy stories, and so did the late Ian Fleming. The literary chromosomes of Graham Greene, C. P. Snow and Vladimir Nabokov are also traceable in this deliberate hybrid. But Anthony Burgess is not trying to imitate them. He has never written an unoriginal novel or an unlaminated one. Every Burgess surface conceals another, like Salome's veils, and they must all peel off to expose the author's naked core. In this exceptional book, subtitled An Eschatological Spy Novel, the reader quickly discovers that Burgess has much more...
Evangelist Billy Graham's huge summer crusade did not so much as rattle a window in Lambeth Palace, residence of the Church of England's Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Michael Ramsey, 61. Stepping off a plane in Vancouver, B.C., during a swing of his own through western Canada, Ramsey conceded that Billy may have "won some converts" but insisted that "we don't need his type of evangelism in England." In these perilous times, he continued, England "needs a thoughtful approach to religion, not bursts of emotionalism." Mused Billy, in thoughtful reply: "Interesting, in view...