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Married, Aimee Semple McPherson, 38, "FourSquare Gospel" evangelist; and her 250-lb. Angelus Temple Voice Instructor David Hutton, 30; at Yuma. Ariz.. after an airplane trip from Los Angeles. Present were her son Rolf and his wife, recently married. Absent was Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, estranged from her "lonely little sparrow." It was the bride's third marriage. Her first two: Robert Semple; Harold McPherson...
...Oscar Stanway, vicar of Claygate, Surrey: "Confetti-throwing is meaningless and messy!" Even worse, said he, is the prevalent practice of throwing imitation rose petals: they show up much more. "Never heard an argument in favor of confetti," said Rev. F. L. H. Millard of St. John-the-Evangelist, North Brixton, London. It was all right, he thought, to throw real flowers (an old village custom), because young ladies liked to pick them up to tuck under their pillows, and old ladies could press them in books...
...Other Book-of-the-Month: SUSAN SPRAY-Sheila Kaye-Smith-Harper ($2.50). It is the story of a woman evangelist, born of poor farmer tenants in rural England. At the age of four she sees God in a fiery bush, runs home screaming to her mother; for the rest of her life she continues to embroider on the tale, sincerely coming to believe it herself. Through the course of her life she marries three times, manages to combine the flesh & the spirit so charmingly, so successfully that she becomes famed...
...grass, the old man would stand up on the buggy seat and exhort passing citizens-workers from the foundries, the machine shops, the glass factories, attendants at the State Insane Asylum, farmers from Stark County-to vote for him as Republican nominee for Mayor. With the fervor of an evangelist promising heaven, the old campaigner in his stand-up collar and wide-brimmed black hat promised Massillon a new municipal water works and reduced water rates if he were elected...
Married. Rolf McPherson, 18, son of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; and one Lorna Dee Smith, 20, graduate of Evangelist McPherson's Four-Square Bible Class; in Angelus Temple at Los Angeles; by the groom's mother. Present at the wedding were 10,000 spectators. Missing from the wedding because she received no invitation Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, grandmother of the groom, whose three-week marriage to Guy Edward Hudson was annulled last week (TIME, July...