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...ruled out questions on Communism and his Communist party-lining before they could be thrown at him. No matter how hard the 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...
What's a Guru? A reporter rose and put the question to Wallace. "I never discuss Westbrook Pegler in public," retorted Wallace...
...into the Riverside Drive Museum, went to court to get back control of the building. The thousand paintings were unslung from the museum walls. Later the U.S. Government sued Roerich for back taxes. Pegler devoted 25 columns to suggesting that Wallace wrote letters calling Roerich "Dear Guru" (Teacher...
...Hindu reformist sect founded by Guru Nanak, a contemporary of Luther. *The Nawab Saheb of Junagadh once threw away 100,000 rupees on the wedding of his prize Airedale bitch, which wore ribbons to the ceremony; vows were read for her and her dog. *In 1802, after the Peace of Amiens, a group of British residents of Calcutta presented the temple of Kali with 5,000 rupees as a thank offering for victories over Napoleon. A century later Kali became a symbol of anti-British Indian nationalism, a place to which Mahatma Gandhi succeeded. That this substitution was only temporary...
...students," Yogananda built his first U.S. GHQ: the Self-Realization Fellowship, near Los Angeles. Favored disciples-such as his barefooted, youthful American secretary, Mr. Wright; and Miss Ettie Bletch, "an elderly lady from Cincinnati" -accompanied the master on triumphal speaking tours. Another group of disciples, U.S. businessmen, built their Guru a splendid hermitage near San Diego ("jutting out [into the Pacific] like a great white ocean liner"). The hermitage was soon followed by two Self-Realization Churches of All Religions, one in Washington, D. C., one in Hollywood ("finished in blue, white and gold . . . with a quaint wishing-well...