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...Charles Francis Adams used to be president of the Forty Associates, a group of old Boston families with extensive realty holdings in the business district. Because State Street had fun referring to "AH Baba Adams and his 40 thieves," the membership was enlarged, the name changed...
With an alphabet board under his arm and adroit publicity before him, Shri Sadguru Meher Baba, Parsee "God Man," arrived in the U. S. last May (TIME, May 2). Though long-haired, silky-mustached Meher Baba indicated he had spoken no word for nearly seven years, he was willing to be interviewed by pointing to his little board, and to be photographed while doing it. Not every one was aware that this was not the God Man's first arrival in the U. S. Last December he quietly terminated an unpublicized stayin Harmon, N. Y., returned unostentatiously to India...
...Meher Baba met a holy woman named Baba Jan (Angel of the Father) who died lately at Poona at the reputed age of 130. Meher Baba soon had a vision of his divine nature. For nine months he lay in a coma, came out of it "merged into God." It is explained that many people are in such a super-conscious state but few can remain in touch with the world, like Meher Baba, and help others to attain divinity...
...almost seven years Meher Baba has uttered no word. When he arrives at his U. S. retreat his lips will be unsealed with much ceremony. Meanwhile he carries a small board with letters and figures to which he points when he has something to say. He intends to found retreats in New Hampshire and California. Meher Baba is supposed to have performed many miracles but now he wishes only to make "Americans realize the infinite state which I myself enjoy." His method of accomplishing this is cryptic yet reassuring. "Let God flood the soul. What...