Evangelist Graham Improves at Hospital
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Religious crusader Billy Graham was in fair condition in a Jacksonville hospital, a day after flying to Florida from a Caribbean vacation for treatment of a lung inflammation. Graham, who has preached Christianity to millions of people the world over, was admitted to St. Luke’s Hospital. Doctors reported that the 79-year-old evangelist’s lung infection, or pneumonitis, was clearing; his fever was subsiding and his white blood count had returned to normal.
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