Playbill

February, 1971

At 52, the Reverend Dr. Billy Graham still seems an incarnation of the boyscout oath. Setting out to separate the man from the mystique, writer Saul Braun (whose most recent assignment for us was a portrait of Johnny Cash) attended Graham's press conferences, signed up for crusades and even digested an authorized biography; but Graham courteously and resolutely declined to grant a personal interview. He diplomatically refused to confide his reasons, but it's clear that he felt his appearance in...