Word: auburns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Auburn-haired, athletic, with brilliant, hypnotic eyes and a prominent nose and chin, Aimee sometimes looked more like a female impersonator than a woman. She had been married twice-to Holy Roller Missionary Robert Semple, who died in China, and to U.S. Grocery Clerk Harold McPherson, whom she divorced-and had a child by each marriage. At her flamboyant services, surrounded by choirs, bell ringers and 80-piece xylophone bands, Aimee most often preached in filmy white celestial robes but occasionally acted out liturgical tableaux dressed as a policeman, fireman or fisherman. Her carelessness about money was sternly held...
Police turned up evidence that, during the evangelist's absence, a cottage at Carmel, Calif, had been occupied for ten days by Kenneth Ormiston, the former Temple radioman (who was separated from his wife), and a lady with thick ankles and coils of auburn hair who strongly resembled Aimee. Back home at the Temple, Aimee met the attack of the lawmen by crying that it was simply another battle in "the age-old fight between the children of light and the people of darkness." But the outraged evangelist was formally charged with "conspiracy to com mit acts injurious...
...residents watched steamshovels break ground for Quincy House, the Leverett Towers, and the Loeb Theatre--their hopes for a new center faded into mild despair. It now appears that the Administration has abondoned plans to build a $1 million Non-Resident House on the corner of Plympton and Mt. Auburn, in back of the Fly Club. Commuters were highly pleased to get a Master, but, as one of them put it, "we still need a real House...
...zoning change from Business "A" to Business "B" would raise the height limit from 60 to 100 feet in the block bounded by Mass. Ave., Holyoke, Dunster, and Mt. Auburn...
Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the School of Design, explained to the Planning Board the architectural features of the H-shaped building which he designed, and said that it will probably be built in two phases. First would come the complete Health Center facilities, extending along Mt. Auburn St. The other half would be built later, including space for the Cambridge Trust Co. and other Mass. Ave. firms...