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Evangelist Billy Graham, 31 (TIME, March 20), was still preaching to the biggest congregations in the U.S. Winding up a six-week revival meeting last week in a specially erected tabernacle in Portland, Ore., he had run up an amazing record: 632,000 attendance, 8,000 conversions. It seemed to be the biggest evangelistic campaign since the late Billy Sunday drew 1,500,000 people in New York 33 years ago. Next Graham vineyard: Minneapolis...
Participants from thirteen European countries attended the six-week session. Nations represented included most of the Western European countries; three Czoch refugees also were able to attend...
When Hank Knight first persuaded Ravinia's reluctant executive committee to add a seventh week to the six-week season, they dubiously called it "crème de la crème." The first concert, with the Pro Arte Quartet, drew only 559 fans, but even that was 200 more than they expected. Since then things have picked up. His biggest triumph came last year when he got Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Violinist Jascha Heifetz and Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky to play together, and packed Ravinia with a record-breaking 10,000 fans (TIME...
...tore a ligament, was later replaced during an exit by Melissa Hayden. Maria would be out of action for at least a week, but even Maria could take comfort in the fact that the British were queuing up for seats for the rest of the company's six-week stay...
...also has a considerable flair for French cooking, which he bolstered this winter by a six-week course in cuisine given by Dione Lucas, of "Cordon Bleu" fame. In the field of dogs, he is known for his extraordinary poodle-clipping talent...