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Canadian-born Aimee Semple McPherson, 28, landed in Los Angeles in 1918 with $10 and a tambourine. Six years later she had built these assets into the $1,500,000 Angelus Temple and a $25,000 radio station, all paid for by cash donations from the fanatic flock that supported her Foursquare Gospel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where Was Aimee? | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...most gratifying win for Norm Shepard's flock, being their first in Eastern League play this year. But the most distinctive feature of the contest was the bewildering assortment of fielding errors and mental boners which kept the spectators chortling for a full three-and-one half hours...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Baseball Team Wins Two Contests As Princeton, Columbia Nines Bow | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...accused Ralph Bunche, now a candidate for the Board of Overseers, of "advancing again and again over the last 23 years the Communist party line." Recalling the aphorism that "birds of a feather flock together," Bunker said Bunche was "one of the small handful of persons who initiated and organized the National Negro Congress,...a carefully planned maneuver of the Kremlin...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Veritas Speakers Warn College on 'Infiltration' | 4/21/1959 | See Source »

...part, the church is well aware that the military mind needs some special retooling before being turned loose on a flock. Says the Rev. Peter Curgenven, General Secretary of the Central Advisory Council, which is in charge of training the swelling ranks of officer-clerics: "These chaps have to learn that they can't issue orders for people to turn up at church-or court-martial habitual sinners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Parade Ground to Pulpit | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...natural gas industry, the Phillips decision set up a new list of "thou shalt nots" in fixing rate bases for independent gas producers. While Phillips will be permitted to raise its overall rates by $14 million, Examiner Zwindler rejected firmly a flock of hypothetical costs totaling $35 million, which Phillips wanted included in its rate base. Chief among these was an item of $11 million for federal income taxes that Phillips does not have to pay because of the 27½% oil and gas depletion allowance. Phillips argued that it still should be allowed to charge customers for the nonexistent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Yardstick for Gas | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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