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Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.

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35. The Armour-Bearer

0.0May 30, 1954 · 120 min

The moving story behind the founding of temple University in Philadelphia is told. The drama will relate how Russell Con well, founder of the university, abandoned a lucrative law practice to become a minister and a great humanitarian, as a result of the death of his armour-bearer in the Civil war. Conwell was a Union army officer when his armour-bearer, a young lad named Johnny Ring, died. Since the boy had hoped to become a minister and preacher after the war, Conwell decided to devote his own life to these objectives, as a testimonial to the boy's, high moral spirit.