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...Aimee Semple McPherson, soul-saver, returned to the U.S. (via Paris) from a trip to the Holy Land, with Bibles, lamps, some Palestinian garments (to wear in the pulpit of her Angelus Temple Church of the Foursquare Gospel) and bright yellow hair (it was reddish when she left the U.S.). While she whirled away on a 200-mile week-end trip through the Catskills, U.S. Customs agents checked her luggage, levied $138 against her in duties and penalties for undeclared imports. Sister Aimee bemoaned: "I never dreamed . . ." etc. Asked if she would pay, she replied: "Oh yes, if the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People 1982: A History of This Section | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...overheated ocean waters destroyed about one-half of that nation's normal commercial fishing catch. Winds, waves and storms smashed California beaches last winter, while Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, southern Africa and southern India all suffered from drought. "A year of natural catastrophe," says M. Peter McPherson, director of the U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency, which has provided $60 million in emergency aid to flooded Andean nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Adios, Maybe, to El Ni | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

...author's creative life. But even the less effective selections are interesting, and the artistry of most of this work makes it an evocative elegy for a darkly beautiful region, and for the haunting struggles of the lives which unfold there. The edition includes a foreword by James Alan McPherson and an afterward by John Casey, writers with whom Pancake worked at the University of Virginia. The give us an idea of the talented troubled man who wrote these stories and tactfully offer a few hints to the mystery of his suicide. They confirm what the stories have already shown...

Author: By Robert E. Monror, | Title: A Single Flame | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

They considered Alan Alda, Mary Tyler Moore and Warren Beatty before deciding an actor was not quite right for the role. Still in search of a narrator for their film responding to Reagan's speech, the Democrats turned to Harry McPherson. Harry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harry Who? | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

...right voice. The right appearance. No baggage. And he told a good story," said California Congressman Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. A prominent politician had been ruled out, since one could not be chosen without offending others. McPherson, 53, who in the 1960s held posts in the Department of State and served as special counsel to President Johnson, was an obscure but credible figure. What does the Texas-born lawyer make of his stardom? Shrugged he: "A friend told me that older citizens need their own sex symbols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harry Who? | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

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