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Resplendent in pink robe and home-made cardboard crown, Homer A. Tomlinson, bishop of the Church of God and presidential candidate of the Theocratic Party, urged a crowd of 150 undergraduates "to be as daring spiritually as you are intellectually." But, before Tomlinson could win many converts, three University police hustled him to a Lamont office...
After seating himself on his portable aluminum throne ("not ivory, like Solomon's but something even Solomon couldn't get"), Tomlinson told his audience that he had 153 million followers who wanted "peace on earth...
Since he received only three million votes in the last election, Tomlinson said he was turning to the youth of America to further the principles of the Theocratic party--union of Church and State, elimination of war, and prohibition of drinking, smoking, and gambling...
...Tomlinson also crowned himself "King of Radcliffe" in a day full of royal activities. He planted his "all-nations flag of peace" in the snow outside the Radcliffe Library last night and proclaimed Gertrude McC. Askew '64 and Karen S. Lipschultz '64 as "queens" of the Theocratic Party...
...history, including Cecil Rhodes, an empire builder for whose financial chicanery and ''Anglo-Saxon'' racialism Waugh expresses intense distaste, and the tragic Lobengula, last king of the Matabele. for whom he has intense admiration. And there is a truly Waugh-like figure. "Bishop" Homer A. Tomlinson of New York, self-styled "King of the World," whose self-coronation in Dar-es-Salaam. Tanganyika, with the aid of a plastic terrestrial globe, was witnessed by an awed Waugh-the fictioneer outdone by the actually absurd...