Word: spellmanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...G.I.s in Korea had two well-known clerical visitors from the U.S. with them for Christmas. From Manhattan came Francis Cardinal Spellman, who besides being Archbishop of New York is Vicar of the Military Ordinariate, responsible for the spiritual care of all Roman Catholics in the U.S. armed forces. From Titusville, Fla., where he interrupted a winter vacation with his wife Ruth, came Evangelist Billy Graham, on a flying tour sponsored by the Protestant churches of Korea...
...front just before Christmas to see the troops. The day before Christmas, in a tour of the central front, 5,000 men turned out to see him. Christmas afternoon he put aside his helmet and flak vest, flew back to Tokyo. Both Evangelist Graham and Cardinal Spellman left a great many calmer, happier Christians behind them in Korea. Graham also left a dog-tired Korean interpreter, the Rev. Han Kyung Chik, a Seoul pastor. Said Presbyterian Han, after two weeks of high-pressure translating for Billy: "Dr. Graham has such a lion's voice, so much power...
...mansion. The Secret Service was against going about in Seoul, but finally Ike gave in, and changed his schedule. Back in his rooms within an hour, he packed up, left a $20 tip for Suzy, Van Fleet's Korean maid (who said later that she still thinks Cardinal Spellman the nicest American), and said goodbye all around. At 8:01 p.m., just three days after his arrival, Ike's planes took off for Guam...
...Defense Department announced that it had approved the request of Evangelist Billy Graham to make a gospel tour of Korea. In Manhattan, Francis Cardinal Spellman said he would spend his second Christmas in Korea, where he plans "to celebrate Mass in three different sectors of the front on Christmas...
...Elevated in 1946: Glennon of St. Louis (who died the next month), Mooney of Detroit, Stritch of Chicago, Spellman of New York...