As Billy Graham arrived in Paris to begin a five-day evangelical crusade, a phalanx of welcomers broke through a line of gendarmes at the railway station, shouting "Beelee! Beelee! Beelee!" "Bee-lee? Who is this Beelee?" asked a harassed official. Said a bystander in surprise: "Why, monsieur, do you not know Beelee Graham, the American clairvoyant?" Thanks to a wave of advance publicity and hundreds of portrait posters pasted throughout Paris and the provinces, most Frenchmen thought they knew who Billy was. The fact that few precisely understood his religious role or the meaning of his evangelistic crusade did not prevent them...
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