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...poetry-reading tour of the U.S., Sir Osbert and Edith Sitwell compared notes on audiences at home and abroad. Said Sir Osbert: "American audiences are more inquiring, more responsive, and not so tired as the English." Sister Edith agreed: "American response is quicker. Some of our meetings were like revivalist's meetings...
...Revivalist Billy Graham saw rifts in the clouds: "Things are looking up. I am encouraged. The picture is brighter. At this time there are more Christians in Congress than in many years...
...Advertised. In Decatur, 111., the night after a touring revivalist advertised in the Decatur Herald and Review that his local crusade had "caught fire," his tent burned down...
...life dominated by gnawing fears and nagging frustrations. As a child, Luther had watched his father destroy himself after learning of his wife's infidelity. As a man, he had found joy neither in his scraggly wife nor his children, one of them an idiot. Only in revivalist religion did he find any outlet for his cramped, unexercised emotions...
CASE BREAK SOON. As if to balance this gruesome fare, the Post's two Page One pictures that day were of a Catholic bishop and of Revivalist Billy Graham (TIME, March 20), now on a tour of New England...