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...sentence for sending obscene material through the mail. Actually, Allenwood Prison camp was not all that bad-Ginzburg even served as a sexton at the prison church-but it was all very depressing. "I felt psychically castrated. I lost 30 lbs. I spent plenty of nights weeping into my pillow." Now liberated and dry-eyed, Ginzburg vowed to reopen his case. "My reputation has been besmirched," said he. "I will be vindicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 23, 1972 | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

...truthfulness of what he was doing. The movement attracted him with its glitter and the limelight t assured him. What Marjoe does not acknowledge is the relation between his craving for attention and the cruelty of his mother, who dunked his head underwater or smothered him with a pillow to insure that her young "gimmick" memorized his allegedly God inspired sermons contentiously Rather, he insists that he resented his lather more although he actually hates neither patent because he suggests unconvincingly, he's doing his thing and they were doing theirs...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Hallelujah | 10/5/1972 | See Source »

Renewing subscribers will find that more than the sheet sizes have changed. The linen will no longer be packaged, and the 35 employees will fold 4000 sheets, 6000 towels, and 2000 pillow eases by hand. Ryan estimates that HSA's laundry room--located in a Western Avenue warehouse formerly used by the Harvard Printing Office--will handle 350 sets of linen...

Author: By Steven Luxenberg, | Title: HSA Consolidates, Founds Own Linen Service | 9/22/1972 | See Source »

...patterns standardized. More and more, blankets were produced solely for sale-often woven to order for merchants who specified the designs that were most in demand among their Eastern customers. Since whites had little interest in wearing blankets, the Navajos began to turn out living-room carpets and even pillow cases. Eventually, the trade in what had once been works of art became so commercialized that many Indians themselves wore blankets mass-produced by the white man. The message of Spider Man and Spider Woman had been largely forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Spider Women | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

...Midwest. When Marjoe preached, according to the film, his parents cued him with prayerful exclamations ("Praise God!" meant the audience was ready for a collection); at home he was taught his routines under duress. To make him learn his lines, he claims, his mother sometimes smothered him with a pillow or stuck his head under water. Early film clips in the movie show horrific visions of the Pavlovian result: a red-headed marionette masquerading as a prodigy of God. Even as recently as last year, his father proudly referred to Marjoe as a "preaching machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hollow Holiness | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

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