Word: madisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FRED D. CHAMBERLIN Madison...
More than 500 billboards, thousands of orange-and-black bumper tags and regular TV and radio announcements proclaimed Graham's advent. In Madison Square Garden, still flavored with the tang of the recently departed circus, huge, fragrant vanloads of flowers were unloaded. For Billy, who calls himself "the Lord's master of ceremonies," carpenters hoisted a towering pulpit. "Every seat will be a good seat . . . There'll be nothing between him and you," a crusade official explained. "We always design it that...
...Christian Century reached its 40,000 subscribers with one of the sharpest attacks on Billy yet made anywhere-far rougher than the criticism from Roman Catholics three weeks ago (TIME, May 6). With well-bred disdain, the Century regarded Billy as a sinister and strange "new junction of Madison Avenue and the Bible Belt . . . Radio and television will be carrying the voice and image of blond sincerity into homes long conditioned to recognize packaged virtue and desperate now for almost any kind of sincerity. It simply cannot fail. With trainloads of well-saved out-of-town supporters coming from...
...personal stamina in the process. He pulled through a serious ulcer operation in which two-thirds of his stomach was cut away, and a coronary attack, bounced back each time to supervise the fortunes of the growing agency. Last week, five months after he suffered a severe cerebral hemorrhage, Madison Avenue was wondering whether Ben Duffy could come back again...
Minister of Internal Affairs. In Madison, Wis., Dr. Leonard W. Moss of Wayne University told the Anthropological Society that men in the Italian town of Bagnoli del Trigno, after listening to the adventures of countrymen returning from working in the U.S., now call their wives "La Bossa...