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Soul-Winning Business. Last week some 3,000 of the faithful, from every state in the union and eight countries, gathered at her "jolly, gaudy" Temple for the 41st annual convention of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. Membership, reported Church President Rolf McPherson, 50, Aimee's only son, has reached a record 218,800. The Angelus Temple has spawned more than 750 daughter churches and 1,300 mission stations in 27 countries; graduates from its three Bible colleges will carry the faith to eight more lands in 1964. The church now boasts gross assets of $41 million...
...success seems largely due to the shrewd management of muzzy, homey Rolf McPherson, who looks, says one colleague, "like the man who comes onstage from the side and takes the third seat from the center." McPherson, who lives modestly in a middle-class Los Angeles suburb, has a Scotsman's knack for paring pennies and replenishing coffers. He himself attributes the church's survival to his mother's vision. "Soul winning is the one big business of the church," she declared; most of her convert-seeking followers tithe, while many give up weekends to build or repair...
However, Aimee's church is building a denominational identity that is independent of the McPherson dynasty. Last week convention delegates for the first time elected all their own officers except for the president; in the past, church officials had always been appointed by Rolf. But that was one of the delegates' few gestures to conventional church practice. "The Lord wanted us to be different," Rolf exhorted the faithful. So, plainly, do they...
GREAT DRAWINGS OF THE MASTERS by Dr. Rolf Hänsler. 234 pages. Putnam. $25, and ITALIAN DRAWINGS by Winslow Ames. 141 pages. Shorewood. $4.95. Drawing, it has been remarked, is the art of omission, and these two fine volumes display the art-and the inner workings of genius-at its highest. Great Drawings travels from 15th century Painter Jan Van Eyck's warm and perceptive silverpoint, Portrait of Cardinal Niccolo Albergati, to the sensual shorthand of Matisse's Female Nude from the Back. Italian Drawings, more modest in scope and quality of reproduction, restricts itself...
...sergeant who was assigned to his country's military mission in Washington. An ambitious, name-dropping, heavily made-up mother of a five-year-old boy, Elly was a fixture at Washington parties. In September, five weeks after the Rometsches were shipped back to West Germany, her husband Rolf, 25, divorced her on the ground of "conduct contrary to matrimonial rules." Last week, while Elly hid out on her parents' farm near Wuppertal, Rolf spoke ruefully of his Washington experience, said that he "had no idea what was going on behind my back. It's a case...