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Citation: "As the trusted friend and assistant to the President of the United States, with great courage, intelligence, and efficiency you labor without stint to bring to fruition with dispatch the domestic and foreign policies of our national government...
Midway in his four-week, $270,000 stint for network TV (TIME, June 17), Evangelist Billy Graham delivered himself of some inner thoughts on the medium last week before a Manhattan Crusade congregation (nontelevised...
...message across and serves to break down public indifference to the church." Yet he admits: "Although I have a deep inner peace, I have an exterior fear before every program and get perspiration on my palms." Will he continue in TV after his costly ($270,000), four-week stint for ABC? "If we can get some institutional sponsors, such as a bank or steel company. And if I can find more of an inner sense of direction toward the medium-that is, get a green light from the Lord...
...money poured into the Maginot Line might better have been spent on boots for the French army.) It was assumed that the war was nearly over, that the Germans would send the prisoners home on free railroad passes. But Dutourd got away. He carries modesty about his three-year stint with the Resistance to the point of devoting half a sentence...
...Duffy began his career at BBDO as a messenger boy. Tall, lumbering Charlie Brower also started under inauspicious circumstances. A New Jersey native and Rutgers graduate ('25), he approached the agency in 1926 after a stint as teacher and basketball coach in a New Jersey high school. He was turned down flat. After two years and several more turndowns, he was hired as a copywriter-only to discover that the man who hired him had been fired two days later. After three weeks of sitting around the office, Brower convinced the agency that he really had been hired. When...