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...Oakland, Calif, hotel room one morning last week Aimee Semple McPherson, the most spectacular U.S. evangelist since Billy Sunday, died gasping in the arms of her son Rolf-a bottle of sleeping pills on the bed table beside her. Though tired and ill, she had come up from Los Angeles to conduct a series of four revival meetings and dedicate a new church of her Foursquare Gospel (which now has 400 branches and 195 missions). On the evening of the day she died, she was to have preached on "The Story of My Life...
Aimee Semple MacPherson, 53, Los Angeles evangelist-in-white who prefers folding money in the collection plate, was back on the job after a tough bout with tropical fever: "I have been close to the valley of the shadow...
Handsome, grinny Eric Johnston, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and No. 1 evangelist for free enterprise, last week continued to baffle (and please) the Russian people. To young Eric (47), this trip to Russia was obviously a major highlight in his rocketing career (TIME, March 27). Enthusiastically he called it "a grand whirl...
Millionaire Funkhouser is board chairman of O'Sullivan Rubber Co. ("America's No. 1 Heel"), an evangelist by temperament, a Republican by adoption. He left West Virginia a poor boy, came back rich at 50 to spend "the afternoon of my life with my own people." That afternoon is being spent in considerable comfort in a 34-room mansion near Charles Town built in 1820 by a grandnephew of George Washington, and "restored" last year by Mrs. Funkhouser. His opponents like to point out that he teaches Sunday School in one wing of the mansion and plays poker...
...from his steadily growing personal prestige. Since his election to the Chamber presidency in 1942, he has hopped over the U.S. city by city, to South America, to England, talking constantly at and with businessmen, labor leaders and politicians. In two years he has made himself the liveliest U.S. evangelist of free enterprise...