W. BILLY GRAHAM and Seven Who Were Saved

Tub thumper and Bible slapper Billy Graham (closest to the ""homiletic calisthenics"" of Billy Sunday) is too well known to warrant much discussion here and there's a brief bio prefacing some seven of his conversions: roughneck Jimmy Karam, formerly Governor Faubus' aide de camp; socialite Eleanor Whitney, formerly the wife of Sonny (Cornelius Vanderbilt) Whitney; Jim Vaus, who worked for the police and moonlighted for mobster Mickey Cohen; golf pro Johnny Spence, a slow suicide, thirty-five years on liquor; cowboy Crooner Hamblen; an artist, an executive.... Down from the pulpit, up from the pulps, but no further than the level of the magazine confessional.