
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, September 25, 1993                   TAG: 9309250084
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: B11   EDITION: METRO 
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THE PEOPLE COLUMN

Garrison Keillor, who for years has had bitter run-ins with journalists over his privacy, kept his barbs gentle when he faced an auditorium full of newspaper editors.

Speaking Tuesday at the Associated Press Managing Editors convention, the 51-year-old humorist described his stint in the 1960s as an "abysmal newspaper reporter" for the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Keillor said: "The thought of calling up somebody and asking them questions that he might not want to answer was deeply terrifying. And the thought of asking them face to face was simply impossible.

"My only real interest in newspaper work, I discovered in six months, was the chance to stay up late at night, and the chance to hang around with old reporters and try to smoke cigarettes and drink whiskey as expertly as they did."

\ Billy Graham heard his own message more clearly, with the help of a hearing aid.

Graham, 74, said his wife talked him into wearing the device during a five-night crusade in Columbus, Ohio.

"I am doing something tonight I have never done before," he told about 33,000 people at Cooper Stadium. "I am wearing it for the first time ever to preach."

In the distance came a wailing sound.

"I can even hear the siren," he said.

Graham, who has Parkinson's disease, said he was taking medicine that allowed him to continue preaching.

by CNB