Word: zamperini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...