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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canadian-born Aimee Semple McPherson, 28, landed in Los Angeles in 1918 with $10 and a tambourine. Six years later she had built these assets into the $1,500,000 Angelus Temple and a $25,000 radio station, all paid for by cash donations from the fanatic flock that supported...
Disastrous Comedy. At first, Aimee was thought to have drowned, and two people died in the search for her body. Then Ma Kennedy began to receive ransom notes from alleged kidnapers, and their language read suspiciously like Aimee's own phrasemaking. Finally, 36 days after she disappeared, Aimee reappeared...
Behind the comedy lay disasters. A man who befriended Aimee killed himself; one of her lawyers died when his car turned over in a water-filled ditch; a state Superior Court judge who backed Aimee was impeached (but acquitted). Mused Ma Kennedy: "It seems that nearly everyone who has been...
Accidental Overdose. Aimee went free after a year's uproar that brought political ruin to nearly all her opponents. Her alleged lover remained a gentleman to the last, stoutly insisting that the lady who trysted with him at Carmel was not Aimee. Author Thomas ends his book with a...
An earlier Giono novel, The Horseman on the Roof (TIME, Feb. 1, 1954), showed how young Angelo had lived through a cholera epidemic and learned how theatrically men often behave in the face of death. What he still does not know, for all his experience, is that he is the...