Word: cultist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expatriate Raymond Duncan, the late Dancer Isadora's creaky, Hellenoid brother, long one of the sights of Paris (see cut), arrived in the U.S. to spend a year celebrating his 75th birthday. With the Attic cultist came a member of the faithful whom he introduced as Mrs. Aia Bertrand, "a sort of Svengali." He planned to put on his own opera ("a comic tragedy") in Manhattan's Town Hall, in which he would insure uniform quality by playing all the roles. Admission: free...
...Happy Few Physical Cultist Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, 80, who keeps the public posted on his sustained "Adam Power," took his annual physical for renewal of his airplane pilot's license. Marveled the doctor...
...reporters tried, he said, "I am not going to engage in Red-baiting . . ." That still left one interesting question: Did Wallace write (in 1934) the fawning, fantastic Guru letters, full of schoolboy mysticism and "secret" pet names, to the late Nicholas Roerich, a fork-bearded Russian artist, explorer, and cultist (TIME, Dec. 29)? For months Columnist Westbrook Pegler had been trying to provoke a yes or no from Wallace...
...white gardenia in her glossy hair, Billie took her homage like a queen. Her voice, a petulant, sex-edged moan, was stronger than ever although she had done no singing at the reformatory. Seemingly tireless and with only three days of rehearsal behind her, she sang 32 numbers, mostly cultist favorites like Billie's Blues, All of Me, Fine and Mellow, and the throat-tightening Strange Fruit...
...Jesus takes Mary the sister of Lazarus as his Queen at the ancient rite during which his cultist followers lame him and anoint him King; but to everyone's dismay he announces his New Law of chastity...