Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After winning two minor celebrities as converts (Cowboy Singer Stuart Hamblen and Track Star Louis Zamperini), Graham made the front pages by converting one "Big Jim" Vaus, a wiretapper by trade who had recently done a job or two for Gangster Mickey Cohen. The story got even better when Graham invited Cohen to a small meeting of Hollywood personalities. "When I asked for people who wanted prayer to hold up their hands," he remembers, "Mickey lifted his hand, and I am sincerely convinced that he wanted...
FIFTY YEARS IN CHINA (346 pp.)-John Leighton Stuart-Random House...
...dedicated to his job. Always first on the practice field and last to leave, he never stops polishing his passes. "He's slim (6 ft., 177 lbs.) but well-proportioned," says Coach Stuart Holcomb, "ideal for a T-quarterback. He's the most unusual boy I've ever seen. He can throw anything: fast, slow, long, short, lobs, bullets, dump passes; take your choice...
When a rampant Senator fumbles for an analogy during a non-political after-dinner speech, he will often preface his remarks with "Reds like" and then add the names of whoever comes first to mind--John Patton Davies, John Stuart Service, or any of a half dozen others. Every campaigner has at his disposal--for quick use before the microphone is switched off--a neatly catalogued list of whipping boys who have been accused but not necessarily convicted...
...another committee member, Stuart P. Atkins, associate professor of German, suggested that any surplus funds should be used to buy books. Atkins said Lamont regular 10 p.m. closing time "seems reasonable to me. After that hour, students can always use House libraries and the basement of Memorial Church," he added...