Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During Evangelist Billy Graham's visit to Little Rock last week, Jimmy was among his most prominent local sponsors, sat with him at press conferences and on the platform. Summed up one Little Rock reporter: "Many church people are convinced that it's the greatest conversion since Paul of Tarsus. Others still see Jimmy Karam under the sheep's clothing...
...dedication of Canada's newest art gallery. "This is not the first contribution that Lord Beaverbrook has made to the arts in Canada," said Master of Ceremonies William G. Constable, onetime curator of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. "But it is incomparably the greatest." On the platform behind him, Lord Beaverbrook beamed at the crowd...
...handsome, articulate Tom Mboya is one of Africa's most winning personalities. But in his campaign to force Kenya's whites to surrender their political control of the fertile British East African colony, Tom Mboya shows a steely contempt for moderatjon and half measures. His platform: complete electoral equality for Kenya's blacks and whites by 1960, common schools for all races and a ban on further white immigration to Kenya...
Hall-Jay Street stop in Brooklyn; cross the platform to take the A express train, get off at the second stop, Lafayette-the front of the train lets you off nearest Cumberland Street; Miss Moore lives on Cumberland, No. 260, which is between Lafayette and De Kalb; it is a six-story, yellow brick building; she lives in Apartment 18 on the fifth floor...
...Palm Springs, caught up on years of neglected reading ("I had never read Whittaker Chambers' book,*and I found it fascinating"), rented a Los Angeles apartment and bought into an insurance firm. When KCOP-TV proposed the commentator's stint, Knight was happy to have a new platform...