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Circumstances: modest Private Barajas never wore the medals he had won for saving the life of two comrades. Ordered to wear the medals, he refused; ordered a second and a third time to wear them, Life-Saver Barajas slew his tormentor...
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. Returning to Manhattan to find she had made Page One all over the U. S., Sister...
Roberta, 18, daughter of Soul Saver Aimee Semple McPherson, sailing with her mother from Palestine to Constantinople, fell from the upper to the lower deck of the boat, suffering severe injury. Her condition prevented Savior McPherson from accompanying her flock to Oberammergau, Germany...
Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles soul-saver, set sail from Manhattan with her daughter Roberta and 75 pilgrims for the Holy Land. She said she intended to preach a sermon from the top of the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt, another (on the evils of gambling) at Monte Carlo, but denied she would fly over Russia dropping pamphlets denouncing religious persecution...
When a man goes over the side of his disabled airplane, from deep in his consciousness comes the reflex which makes him pull the rip cord, located over his heart, and open up his life saver. Psychologically it is almost impossible to forget to pull. Three hundred feet of altitude is the safe minimum in which the chute can be used, although jumps of less height are on record. The highest jump on record is one of better than 24,000 ft. At that height, the jumper had to have oxygen for breathing. The longest delayed jump was from...