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Although he is no longer in college, Ron Delany of Ireland could still steal the show tonight in the special Louis S. Zamperini Mile. Last week, he caught Hungarian Istvan Rozsavolgyi with one of his stirring last-lap charges and finished first...
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...
...years Army Bombardier Louis Zamperini, onetime University of Southern California track star and 1936 Olympic runner, suffered mistreatment in Japanese prisoner of war camps. Armed with a list of his persecutors supplied by the War Crimes Commission, he arrived in Japan last week. But vengeance was not Lou Zamperini's purpose. Converted last year by Evangelist Billy Graham. Zamperini says he hopes that he can find his captors and convert them to Christianity as part of a two-month tour of Japan under the auspices of the International Youth for Christ movement...
Last week two notable local citizens publicly announced their conversion. War hero and onetime Olympic runner Louis Zamperini, 32, accompanied by his wife, hurried down the aisle. Said he: "From now on, I am going to be an honest-to-God Christian." Stuart Hamblen, radio star (cowboy band) also announced his "return to the teachings of Christ," and offered his string of seven race horses for sale...
...leap year and back then in the early era of Roosevelt the last Olympic games were held. In that year Jesse Owens streaked to four world's records in the Berlin Stadium, the University of Washington crew edged the best eights in the world, and miler Lou Zamperini climbed up a flagpole after a swastika and shinnied right into an international incident. Perhaps it's a sign that peace is really here; for in 1948 the world plans to hold another edition of the Olympic games this time in London, England...