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...same time), the Freedomites periodically set fire to their shacks, then stripped to the buff and hurled their clothing into the flames. But then, under the leadership of a hot-eyed fanatic named Peter Lordly Verigin, self-appointed "Son" Stefan Sorokin, and a 240-lb. stripper called "Big Fanny" Storgoff, the Freedomite flames turned outward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Taming the Spirit Wrestlers | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

Died. Florence ("Big Fanny") Storgoff, 56, massive (240 Ibs.) leader of the Canadian Doukhobors' Sons of Freedom, a small (3,000 members) but fanatic religious sect that broke away from the more peaceable "Douks" after they emigrated from Russia in 1899, and is forever giving the authorities fits by squatting on government land, ignoring public schools and legalized marriage, and burning their homes and parading around naked whenever police try to enforce the law; of cancer; in Vancouver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 25, 1964 | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

Fancy Free. In The Bronx, N.Y., William Storgoff, who was charged with grand larceny, forgery and impersonation, bore a tattoo reading "Death Before Dishonor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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