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...tournament--which was started by Harvard College graduate Dwight F. Davis of the class of 1900--has been held at Boston's Longwood Cricket Club ever since the first matches in August...
...tournament--which was started by Harvard College graduate Dwight F. Davis of the class of 1900--has been held at Boston's Longwood Cricket Club ever since the first matches in August...
...planet Rizq, a spaceship is coming on May 5, 2003, to scoop up believers. The believers have been making quite a spectacle in the tiny town of Eatonton, Ga. (pop. 5,000), seat of the not much larger Putnam County (pop. 17,000). There, the man born Dwight York, of Sullivan County, N.Y., decreed the founding of Tama-Re, Egypt of the West, a 19-acre evocation of the ancient land, complete with 40-ft. pyramids, obelisks, gods, goddesses and a giant sphinx. It is the holy see of the Nuwaubians...
DIED. KENNETH S. DAVIS, 86, historian and tireless biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt; in Manhattan, Kans. The author of books on Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower as well, he had just completed the fifth volume of his prizewinning life of F.D.R...
...evangelical revivalism in the U.S. That history began with Charles Grandison Finney, who created a new American form of religious revival, a highly organized, popular spectacle. (He later gave up his career as an evangelist to become president of Oberlin College in 1851.) The tradition was carried on by Dwight Lyman Moody, William Ashley Sunday and Graham, the disciple of Moody rather than of Billy Sunday. Moody, in Finney's wake, invented Graham's methods and organizing principles: advance men, advertising, aggressive publicity campaigns, and a staff of specialists (prayer leaders, singers, counselors, ushers). Graham perfected Moody's transformation...