Word: yogis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI (498 pp.) -Paramhansa Yogananda-Philosophical Library...
Second Time Around. Yogananda says that his earliest memories, as a mere infant, were of a previous incarnation, in which he was "a Yogi amidst the Himalayan snows." Crying spells and "prayerful surges" welled up in the precocious little nipper when he realized that he was no more than a mewling suckling. At the age of eight, he was struck down by Asiatic cholera. He was at death's door when his mother gestured frantically toward a photograph of her favorite yogi, and screamed to her son: "Bow to him mentally [and] your life will be spared!" "I gazed...
...never be said of Arthur Koestler that he picks the easy ones. In his powerful anti-Communist novels (Darkness at Noon, Arrival and Departure) and non-fiction (The Yogi and the Commissar) this tough-minded graduate of Europe's concentration camps sprang hip-deep into the great moral problems of our time. At 41, ex-Communist, now-Socialist Koestler is easily the top intellectual argufier writing today. Still picking the tough ones, he has now written a novel about Palestine and the Jews who claim it as their home. Thieves in the Night will not add a cubit...
TIME [July 22] stated that when Madame Ganna Walska divorced Yogi Theos Bernard she agreed to pay him $1,500 a month alimony. That was an error. Believing that Bernard was penniless, Madame Ganna Walska agreed to pay him $1,500 to cover his living expenses for three months until his suit for separate maintenance could be tried. After that payment had been made, it was discovered that he had substantial means and Madame Ganna Walska thereupon sued for divorce. The divorce was granted but did not provide for any cash settlement or for any alimony...
Gonna Walslca, Polish ex-soprano and husband collector (total fortune of her first four: $125,000,000), got rid of her sixth, Yogi Theos Bernard, but not without costs and regrets. He had provoked her in many ways, said she. First, he had caused her great mental anguish by insisting on living alone with his father in the "penthouse of the gods" (which she had bought for him), then he had tried to force money out of her by1) invoking Yoga powers, 2) "well-nigh choking and strangling me," 3) suing for separate maintenance because of a rheumatic heart which...