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...Welcome, Billy," they shouted as the train from London chuffed into St. Enoch's station. Then, as a chorus of Scottish voices sang the 23rd Psalm, the men and women of Glasgow, many of them weeping, surged toward the slim young American. Grey hat in one hand, leather-bound Bible in the other, Evangelist Billy Graham joined briefly in the singing, then made his way through a forest of outstretched hands and drove to his hotel. There, under his window, another crowd waited. Said Billy: "We have prayed for Glasgow all the way across the Atlantic...
...That we have a spiritual revival is all important." Next major meetings between Billy and the Devil will be in Glasgow, March 19-April 30; London, May ; Paris (tentatively), June...
...interest in my pictorial work has continuously increased since I commenced my religious subjects. My first important religious painting, The Madonna of Port-Lligat, which was exhibited in 1947, was very highly praised. A subsequent one, The Christ of St. John of the Cross, was acquired by the Glasgow Art Gallery and has created a tremendous interest...I consider the [Met's] acquisition now of my Crucifixion as being timely. My pictorial conception of Corpus hipercubus is a completely new creative idea which is in direct contrast to the current abstract academism...
...Rootes Motors, Sheila was in Munich, busily giving her Sunbeam sedan a last-minute going-over to get it ready for the grinding, 2,000-mile Monte Carlo Rally.* With her were 43 other teams from six countries, driving cars from 17 different factories. Fanned out across Europe-in Glasgow, Monte Carlo, Lisbon, Athens, Oslo, Palermo, Stockholm-nearly 300 other teams waited for the starter's flag...
Others found the going even worse. Two French teams, starting from Palermo, ran smack into an avalanche that piled six-foot snow drifts on the narrow Alpine roads. Drivers starting from Oslo and Stockholm shuddered through below-zero cold; inch-thick ice formed on windshields. British drivers leaving Glasgow fought snow, fog and black ice on roads that slowed them down so much that an unhappy few missed the boat from Dover to Boulogne...