Word: ballards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gullibility. Most cockeyed cult of all is the Mighty I AM Presence. Last week I AM's leaders were filled with anything but Joy and Bliss. Indicted in Los Angeles (U. S. crazy-cult headquarters) for mail frauds were 24 of them, headed by Mrs. Edna Wheeler Ballard ("alias Joan of Arc, Jesus and Lotus Ray King") and Donald Ballard ("alias Edona Eros, Robin Hood and Lafayette...
Surprised were the parents of John F. Ballard '40 of Eliot House and Milton when they learned that their son would sail for France next month to join the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps...
Admitting that he had often talked of volunteering because his prospects of getting a job after graduation seemed slim, they didn't believe that he would actually sign up. "Glamour is responsible for my son's desire to drive an ambulance," Mrs. Ballard said...
Died. Guy W. (for Warren) Ballard, 60, onetime mining engineer, more recently (with his priestess wife) the "Accredited Messenger of the Ascended Masters of the Mighty I AM Presence" (a psycho-religious cult abjuring alcohol, narcotics, tobacco, onions, garlic); from a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Grey-haired, pink-tied, white-suited Messenger Ballard owned and drove, with Wife Edna and Son Donald, four high-priced, canary-yellow automobiles, one with a concert harp strung on behind, spreading through the U. S. the doctrine of I AMery...