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...poet in question was Aleister Crowley, 58, born the son of well-to-do evangelical parents. His parents had lived their own lives as active Christian laymen, and done their best to make him follow their example. They had given him the baptismal name of Edward Alexander, but he preferred others. Perhaps his favorite name for himself (adopted from the book of Revelation) was "The Beast whose number is 666." When he died, at 72, he was popularly known as "The Worst Man in Britain" and "The Wickedest Man in the World." His literary executor, John Symonds, has now written...
...Devils. Many a son has reacted to parental righteousness by going wrong. But Aleister Crowley is one of the few who deliberately devoted a lifetime to creating a "religion" out of every vice in the catalogue. At 14, he seduced the kitchen maid while his mother was at church, and butchered a cat to see whether it had nine lives. These were mere preliminary excursions; he inherited a fortune from his pious father and went on to broader fields. At 23, he became Brother Perdurabo ("I will endure to the end") of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn...
Without her family's knowledge, Crowley married Rose Kelly, sister of Painter Sir Gerald Kelly. They spent their honeymoon in Cairo, where they drove through the streets dressed in silks, diamonds and cloth of gold, and in Ceylon, where, for a while, Rose thought she was a flying bat and was found by her admiring husband hanging from a beam, naked, upside down and unhurt...
...Paul Crowley will start at left end, Hank Toepke and the recuperated Bob Stargel at the tackles, with veterans Eli Manos and Art Pappas flanking Coolidge...
...Crowley is the Crimson's top offensive end. As Jordan said when explaining why so many men would have to go both ways, "We don't have any alternative...