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...intend to designate an heir, as Nasser designated...
...father, Herbert W. Armstrong, are the watchful guardians of Pasadena's Worldwide Church of God, a clannish, bizarre, 40-year-old sect (TIME, May 15, 1972) that has made the end times something of a stock in trade. Now it appears that Founder Herbert and Heir Apparent Garner Ted may be approaching an end time of their own-at least the end of their tightfisted, monolithic control of their prosperous church.* This week several thousand members of the sect will receive an angry 13-page letter explaining why six ministers have quit the church since last fall. The letter...
...been a covert philanderer for many years. After some top churchmen complained to Herbert Armstrong three years ago, Garner Ted acknowledged a transgression "against God, his church ... and the wife God gave me." Garner Ted was, however, eventually pronounced repentant. Then, seven months ago, Herbert declared him the anointed heir to the church's leadership...
...Making of Ashenden," Warren Ashenden is the jet-set heir to a matchbook fortune. His father was the originator of the slogan, "For Our Matchless Friends." Ironically, Warren is literally matchless because he can find no partner to equal his self-image as one of the three or four dozen truly civilized men. Ashenden is a hopeless romantic, one of the "last young men in America," in middle age, "still looking for himself." And his story is a self parody of a hopelessly romantic Love Story peopled from Burke's Peerage. The 'Making' of Ashenden is actually a make...
...months Lee was rigid with despair. Then, in a sudden blossoming-or release-she began painting again. She also became the art world's most formidable "art widow." As heir to all of Pollock's work, she doled out paintings at a careful pace, consulted endlessly with lawyers and galleries. Critic Harold Rosenberg once credited her with "almost singlehandedly forcing up the prices for contemporary American...