Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kentucky mountain town of Hazard one day last week, an old coal miner walked up to a minor commotion on the sidewalk and stuck out his hand. "I hear you're running for governor,'' he said to the grinning, greying man in the center of the crowd. Albert Benjamin Chandler, 56, clutched the miner's hand and encircled his waist with a powerful left arm. "The rumor's out, is it?" he said. "Well, I'm trying to spread...
Marlene sounds mellower than ever before. She is still a bored, poised and cynical siren, but compassionate and full of ripe wisdom. "In your voice we hear the voice of the Lorelei." says Jean Cocteau in the album notes, ''but the Lorelei was a danger to be feared. You are not." In the album an enthusiastic British audience claps, cheers and laughs along with the performer, suggesting that beyond the bored and enigmatic smile of the screen Marlene. there is a skilled and warm variety artist who can pout, frown, tease, worry, smile and flirt in a constant...
...reply, Billy offered the spiritual knife of his preaching and the high-pressure knuckle-duster of U.S.-style evangelism. Five thousand special buses and 83 special trams stood by.Graham's advance guard placarded all Scotland with his picture. But the Scots needed little urging; they flocked to hear him. Said the Rev. A. Nevile Davidson, Minister of Glasgow: "God has sent a man with a message at the right moment...
...time for another call like this." Again, hundreds came forward. Most of Scotland's papers praised Billy to the skies. There were some scornful dissenters (wrote a columnist in the Evening News: "The final scene nauseated me."). But night after night the people in Glasgow thronged to hear Billy Graham speak, because he told them, and they believed him: "More people are praying for Glasgow tonight than have ever prayed for any city in the history of the church...
...innocent. Doreen Lang captured believably the quality of a woman too pure-minded to know or guess at the plot that was hatched in her own house; the military court that condemned her to death had that toplofty disregard for the evidence that seems to identify all judges who hear cases with their minds already made...