", INTERVIEWER: "What happened to your second wife? [39] Rather than telling Northrup where Alexis was, he called her and said that "he had cut [Alexis] into little pieces and dropped the pieces in a river and that he had seen little arms and legs floating down the river and it was my fault, I'd done it because I'd left him."[53]. Hubbard would evolve into the leader of the Church of Scientology.[1]. The Hubbards moved to a new house in Elizabeth to be near the Foundation. '"[50], Despite her conviction, Mary Sue remained in her post as Controller of the Guardian's Office (GO). A Wikimdia Commons tartalmaz L. Ron Hubbard tmj mdiallomnyokat. Mary Sue Hubbard (ne Whipp; June 17, 1931 - November 25, 2002 [1]) was the third wife of L. Ron Hubbard, from 1952 until his death in 1986. She attempted to flee on a ferry but Hubbard caught up with her and convinced her to stay, saying that he was in the process of getting a divorce and that an attorney had told him that the marriage with Northrup was legal. I thought to myself, 'My God, I can't tell her. [30] Their sojourn in Morocco ended abruptly in December 1972 when it became clear that the Church of Scientology was about to be indicted in France for fraud, and that Hubbard himself was potentially at risk of being extradited to appear in court if the case went to trial. I want her always. Jack Parsons was also an avid student and practitioner of the occult. Hubbard blamed Klowden for the suicide bid and told her to forget about him and the Foundation, but resumed the affair with her again within a month.[48]. In April 1969, Mary Sue was promoted by Hubbard to serve as the captain of the Royal Scotman and ordered to cruise up and down the coast of Spain to train the vessel's inexperienced crew of Scientologists, who had made a string of mistakes that infuriated Hubbard. [45] One evening he arranged a double-date with his wife and Klowden, who was accompanied by Hollister, an instructor in the Los Angeles Dianetic Foundation. She kept saying to me, 'What is he worried about?' Instead, he said, if Northrup really loved him she should kill herself. Someone erroneously tipped Hubbard off that the FBI was going to raid again and a massive shredding frenzy took place in Palm Springs, CA as he left on 2/14/1980, again going into hiding, never to return. [38] Northrup became Hubbard's personal auditor (Dianetic counselor)[39] and was hailed by him as one of the first Dianetic "Clears". Please do believe I do so want to help you get Alexis."[64]. Heber Jentzsch, president of . The grand jury named Hubbard as an unindicted co-conspirator; the seized Guardian Office. Separation papers being filed and divorce applied for. It's notable for a number of reasons. She played a leading role in the management of the Church of Scientology, rising to become the head of the Church's Guardian's Office (GO). She turned up destitute and pregnant. [33] The couple moved to a rented trailer in North Hollywood in July 1947, where Hubbard spent much of his time writing stories for pulp magazines. Sometimes when the two of them were sitting at the table together, the hostility was almost tangible. He had been married in 1933, but his wife wouldn't bring the whole family down to California from Washington to live. [72] When the case came to trial in May 1984, she told the Superior Court of Los Angeles County that she had been "mentally raped" and "emotionally distressed" knowing that others had seen the documents. She played a major role in the creation of Dianetics, which evolved into the religious movement Scientology. Or whatever. Share it! At six-twenty-five I would go into his office with a jacket for him to wear to table and after dinner they would spend an hour or so watching television with the children and then he and Mary Sue would return to work in their separate offices. I telephoned Hubbard's lawyer in Elizabeth and warned him: "Listen, asshole, if you don't get that baby back I'm going to burn you. I went back several times later to make sure that she wasn't going to rat on him. She was also a very attractive woman, which helped to draw people into the Church. Northrup was a major figure in the Pasadena branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O. That was one of the reasons L. Ron Hubbard never had a relationship with her. As far as I know, all his policies and doctrines were race-neutral, which is a big deal for someone from the 1940s. "[53] She was bundled into the back of a car and driven to San Bernardino, California, where Hubbard attempted to find a doctor to examine his wife and declare her insane. [33] When it became known in October 1974 that the FBI wished to interview Hubbard, Mary Sue persuaded her husband to avoid going ashore in the United States and the Apollo spent the next year sailing from port to port in the Caribbean. I just wanted to be free of him! Liked this page? As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age, including perennial and New York Times bestsellers such as Battlefield Earth . A "Founding Church of Scientology" was established in Washington, D.C. and Mary Sue became its first Academy Supervisor. Hubbard was an Eagle Scout. We are very gay companions. On October 8, a deal was struck between the government and the Church that the nine defendants including Mary Sue would each plead guilty to one charge of conspiracy if they agreed to sign a written stipulation by the government (essentially a public confession) of what they had done, thus avoiding a lengthy trial. [75], Many years later, another of his followers, Virginia Downsborough, recalled that during the mid-1960s he "talked a lot about Sara Northrup and seemed to want to make sure that I knew he had never married her. [4], She became pregnant in February 1952 and married Hubbard the next month. At age 15, Northrup moved in with sister Helen and her husband Jack, while she finished high school. Mary Sue Hubbard, third wife of L. Ron, was sentenced to four years and given a fine of $10,000. Northrup filed a kidnapping complaint with the Los Angeles Police Department on her return home but was rebuffed by the police, who dismissed the affair as a mere domestic dispute. She is heavily sexed. [56] The Messengers, who were mostly in their teens and early twenties, became Hubbard's sole means of communication with the Church. He had worked as an archivist for the Church of Scientology, gathering source material for a planned biography of L. Ron Hubbard. The O.T.O. She was not the affectionate type, she was more efficient than affectionate. Hubbard turned up and took the child. [85], Neither Northrup nor Alexis made any further attempt to contact Hubbard, who disinherited Alexis in his will, written in January 1986 on the day before he died. L. Ron Hubbard PO Box 24152 Tampa, FL 33623 28 November 1980. "[74], In October 1984, Mary Sue filed a $5 million lawsuit against her husband's first son, Ronald DeWolf, accusing him of "massive fraud" for attempting to have his father declared legally dead or mentally incompetent. Speaking several years later to the St. Petersburg Times newspaper, Miscavige commented: I knew if it was going to be a physical takeover we're going to lose because they had a couple thousand staff and we (the "messengers") had about 50. That is the amazing part about it. The fact is that Hubbard had been married 3 times at the time of the interview. An attempt was made to have her sign an affidavit stating that she was in fact the daughter of L. Ron Hubbard's first son, her half-brother L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.[87], As the United Press International news agency noted, Church of Scientology biographies of Hubbard's life do not mention either of his first two wives. "[8] Despite the tensions between them, Hubbard, Northrup and Parsons agreed at the start of 1946 that they would go into business together, buying yachts on the East Coast and sailing them to California to sell at a profit. He kept her sitting up in a chair, denying her sleep, trying to use Black Dianetic principles on her, repeating over and over again whatever he wanted her to do. of age, 5'10", 140 lbs. They were formally found guilty on October 26, 1979. Starcasm Staff March 30, 2015 L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology In the HBO documentary Going Clea r that aired Sunday night it was revealed that according to Scientology founder L. Ron. Mr. Ronald Reagan President . She was forced to resign her post in 1981 and served a year in prison in 1983, after exhausting her appeals against her conviction. The veins in his forehead would engorge" and he would hit her "out of the blue", breaking her eardrum in one attack. He said he went to a party and got drunk and when he woke up in the morning he found Northrup was in bed with him. Further, through Parsons, she was strangely intimate with many scientists of Los Alamo Gordos [Alamogordo in New Mexico was where the first atomic bomb was tested]. They would go to bed very late, usually in the small hours of the morning, and get up in the early afternoon [Mary Sue] had a separate bedroom, but usually had breakfast with him scrambled eggs, sausages, mushrooms and tomatoes. [3], The Hubbards returned again to London at the end of September 1955, where they took over the day-to-day management of the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International. The wife of the founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, has filed a $5 million suit against Mr. Hubbard's son, charging "massive fraud" in his 1982 effort to have his father declared legally dead or mentally incompetent. L. Ron Hubbard's wife, Mary Sue Hubbard, was an important part of the Church of Scientology. He persuaded Northrup to pose as an old friend writing in support of his appeals; in one letter, she claimed untruthfully to have "known Lafayette Ronald Hubbard for many years" and described his supposed pre-war state of health. Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard served in the US Navy in the 1940s. I can never pronounce her name. How many girls is a man entitled to in one lifetime, anyway? He was furious and threatened to kill Alexis rather than let Northrup care for her: "He didn't want her to be brought up by me because I was in league with the doctors. Mary Sue was grief-stricken, though she later attempted to persuade friends that Quentin had died from encephalitis. From our brother's account he has given away both his girl and his money. And it was the nineteenth of June and it was the happiest day of my life. My libido is so low I hardly admire her naked. [29], The Hubbards moved ashore in March 1972 after three years traveling aboard their ship from port to port in the Mediterranean. However I am afraid that most of the money has already been dissipated. In May 1951, Northrup filed a further complaint against Hubbard, accusing him of having fled to Cuba to evade the divorce papers that she was seeking to serve. Weeks passed without word from Hubbard. [3] The couple had three daughters. [58] She subsequently changed her mind, believing that she had been tricked, and wrote to her husband to complain but received no response. [32] Northrup had no idea of Hubbard's first marriage or why people were treating her so strangely until his son L. Ron Hubbard Jr. told her that his parents were still married. They spent most of their time working; there was very little socializing. [84] Even his own staff were shocked by the contents of Hubbard's letter; he ended his instructions to them with the statement, "Decency is not a subject well understood". [25] The difference in the quality of living conditions between the Hubbards and the crew was stark: Most of the crew lived in cramped, smelly, roach-infested dormitories fitted with bunks in three tiers that left little room for personal possessions. He succeeded in escaping in May and turned himself in to the FBI, making a full confession. 4. It's an unimportant detail but he's had three wives What is important is that his followers were there as he lied, but no matter what the evidence they don't believe it. L. Ron Hubbard's body was found in a motor home with the air conditioner running, tucked behind animal stables on a small ranch outside Creston. Around the summer of 1951, he explained his flight to Cuba as being a bid to escape Northrup's depredations: "He talked a lot about Sara. [11] Northrup also became pregnant but had an abortion on April 1, 1943, arranged by Parsons and carried out by Dr. Zachary Taylor Malaby, a prominent Pasadena doctor and Democratic politician. The late wife of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard left her home to her prized pooch, who survived its master by 11 years and lived it up in a multi-million-dollar Los Angeles pad. To that end he wrote Dianetics, proving to all the world just how mediocre a writer he was . ", "Court upholds convictions of 9 Scientologists", "Church of Scientology of California, Plaintiff, Mary Sue Hubbard, Intervenor, vs. Gerald Armstrong, Defendant Memorandum of Intended Decision", "Son of Church Founder Is Sued by Stepmother", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary_Sue_Hubbard&oldid=1139846347, This page was last edited on 17 February 2023, at 05:30. While still quite racist, L. Ron was actually far less racist than his contemporaries. L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers Of The Future; Tuesday Trash And Trouble ~ The Friday Night Mystery Club by Joanna Campbell Slan; The Adventures Of Winston The Pig: Meet Winston ~ Guest Post And Giveaway; No Small Murder ~ A Mini-Meadows Mystery by Lena Gregory; Invocation: Days Of Iron & Clay by Aileen Erin ~ Cover Reveal And Giveaway; categories She did, however, resurface on a few occasions during the remaining years of her life. Parsons took an immediate liking to Hubbard and invited him to stay in the house for the duration of his leave. [35] Hubbard told his friend Forrest J. Ackerman that he had acquired a Dictaphone machine which Northrup was "beating out her wits on" transcribing not only fiction but his book on the "cause and cure of nervous tension". Such conduct was expressly permitted by the O.T.O., which followed Crowley's disdain of marriage as a "detestable institution" and accepted as commonplace the swapping of wives and partners between O.T.O. I believed Sara absolutely; there was no question about the truth in my opinion. On the one hand she certainly appeared to be a pathetic individual. However, there were a number of obstacles to overcome before the termination of the GO could be accomplished. Her disruptive behavior appalled Fred Gwynn, a new O.T.O. She was a highly intelligent woman who helped her husband with his research and writing. It has been variously defined as a cult, a business, or a new religious movement. "All guns were now manned with great attention as it was supposed that the sub was trying to surface. Confessedly a member of the Young Communists. She began an affair with Wilfred Smith, Parsons' mentor in the O.T.O. Her husband's reaction was one of fury, blaming Quentin for in his eyes letting him down. The house was torn down. In the future I wish to lead a quiet and orderly existence with my little girl far away from the enturbulating influences which have ruined my marriage. Fearing arrest, he fled to Washington, D.C. with a handful of aides while Mary Sue was left behind in Florida continuing her day-to-day management activities. [89], The church continues to promulgate Hubbard's claims about their relationship. [44], One of their primary targets was the IRS, with which Scientology was engaged in a bitter battle over tax exemptions. On the night of February 24, 1951, Alexis was being looked after by John Sanborne while Northrup had a night at the movies. [10], Although both were committed O.T.O. She switched the envelopes and sent them. The case was settled out of court eleven days later, with Hubbard and Northrup agreeing to refund some of Parsons' money while keeping a yacht, the Harpoon, for themselves. "[69], On June 12, Hubbard was awarded a divorce in the County Court of Sedgwick County, Kansas on the basis of Northrup's "gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty", which had caused him "nervous breakdown and impairment to health. Maybe he should be reincarnated as a rabbit. Not only was the GO not handling these suits, the GO, and particularly Mary Sue Hubbard, even refused to answer our questions about the suits because they viewed themselves answerable only to persons within the GO Our attempts to get information were thwarted by Mary Sue Hubbard. I think I have made a great gain and as Betty and I are the best of friends, there is little loss. I cared for her rather deeply but I have no desire to control her emotions, and I can, I hope, control my own. . In 1952, Mary Sue and Ron were married. Under his doctrine he believed that "mistakes do not just happen, somebody causes them, always". A month later Northrup was made a director of the newly established Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation in Elizabeth, New Jersey, an organization founded to disseminate knowledge of Dianetics. The other five defendants received lesser sentences and fines. Although she was not yet twenty-four years old, she exercised considerable power within the Scientology movement and people around Hubbard quickly learned to be wary of her. She was convicted in December 1979 and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and the payment of a $10,000 fine. 6 Yet remarkably, despite the tantalizing scandal that surrounds it in popular culture, Scientology . Before starting his church in 1954, L. Ron Hubbard earned his living as a pulp fiction writer, churning out story after story across numerous genres. There is no other reason for this statement than my own wish to make atonement for the damage I may have done. Hubbard took with him only two people, a married couple named Pat and Anne Broeker. "I just ran across the airfield, across the runways, to the airport and got on the plane. He moved in with me about two months ago, and although Betty and I are still friendly, she has transferred her sexual affection to Ron. L. Ron Hubbard was not in any way a nice guy, he was a deeply horrible person (who was also correctly described by our moderator freezoneandproud as a "rat bastard"). Excerpts from the interview were published in Corydon's 1987 book, L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?. I was under enormous stress and my advisers insisted it was necessary for me to carry through an action as I have done. Drug addiction set in fall 1950. His search was unsuccessful and he released her at Yuma Airport across the state line in Arizona. Hubbards mission was successful far beyond anyones expectations. He was 74 years old. She made a striking impression on the other lodgers; George Pendle describes her as "feisty and untamed, proud and self-willed, she stood five foot nine, had a lithe body and blond hair, and was extremely candid. "[63], The divorce writ prompted a deluge of bad publicity for Hubbard and elicited an unexpected letter to Northrup from his first wife, Polly, who wrote: "If I can help in any way I'd like toYou must get Alexis in your custodyRon is not normal. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1911-1986), commonly shortened to L. Ron Hubbard, was a science-fiction writer and drug fiend[1] who engaged in the ultimate experiment: to create a religion founded on utter bullshit, yet endowed with the sociological and psychological components that "make religions work". [61], Northrup filed for divorce on April 23, 1951, charging Hubbard with "extreme cruelty" causing her "great mental anguish and physical suffering". His sexual difficulties with Northrup, for which he was taking testosterone supplements, are a significant feature of the document. The arrival of Hubbard and Northrup three weeks after the divorce was filed scandalized Hubbard's family, who deeply disapproved of his treatment of Polly. Russell Miller notes: They were indeed an unlikely couple a flamboyant, fast-talking extrovert entrepreneur in his forties and a quiet, intense young woman twenty years his junior from a small town in Texas. Parsons was deeply dismayed but tried to put a brave face on the situation, informing Aleister Crowley: About three months ago I met Captain [sic] L. Ron Hubbard, a writer and explorer of whom I had known for some time He is a gentleman; he has red hair, green eyes, is honest and intelligent, and we have become great friends. "[50] Hubbard enlisted de Mille and another Dianeticist, Dave Williams, in an attempt to convince her to stay with him. "[83], Despite clearly being written by Hubbard, who spoke in the first person in the letter, it was signed "Your good friend, J. Edgar Hoover". members. [33] She later recalled: "I would often entertain him with plots so he could write. Although Hubbard himself was much admired by Scientologists, his wife was said to be much less popular. It is now in the Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions at the University of Alberta. Quentin committed suicide in Las. I'm actually gonna disagree with most people here. He briefed the divorce court reporters for the Los Angeles Times and the Examiner, who were both women and early feminists, to ensure that "they knew what a bastard this guy Hubbard was. Outspokenly disloyal to the U.S.[56], In another letter sent in March, Hubbard told the FBI that Northrup was a Communist and a drug addict, and offered a $10,000 reward to anyone who could resolve Northrup's problems through the application of Dianetics techniques.[57]. It just never occurred to me he was a liar. "[62] He later told Hubbard's unofficial biographer, Russell Miller: I liked Sara and Miles a lot. L. Ron Hubbard, in full Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, (born March 13, 1911, Tilden, Nebraska, U.S.died January 24, 1986, San Luis Obispo, California), American novelist and founder of the Church of Scientology. We were talking about guns and she said to me that I was the type to use a Saturday night special" (a very cheap "junk gun"). I know, because I personally met with her and obtained her resignation At first, Mary Sue Hubbard was not willing to resign. Evidently a prime mover but very young. Mary Sue was promoted to the position of Controller "for life" of the Guardian's Office in January 1969, with one of her subordinates, Jane Kember, being appointed to Mary Sue's old post of Guardian. Recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation files show that just over a year after L. Ron Hubbard created the the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, a precursor to the Church of Scientology, he offered to become an informant for the Bureau, and provide the FBI with a list of its members and copies of their fingerprints.. Sara Northrup Hubbard, 2nd wife of L. Ron Hubbard Hubbard's strange writings did seem to imbue him with a special kind of confidence and belief in his own abilities, which for many seemed like supernatural powers. Her lawyer, Caryl Warner, also worked the media on her behalf so that Northrup's story received maximum publicity. [71] In June 1984, Judge Paul G. Breckenridge ruled against the Church and Mary Sue Hubbard, criticizing her credibility as a witness: LRH's wife, Mary Sue Hubbard is also plaintiff herein. According to him, Sara had served a stretch at Tahatchapie [sic] (in a desert woman's prison) and was a dope addict. [54] She reacted angrily; in a 1992 trial in Canada, Miscavige told the court that she had called him "some pretty nasty names" and threatened him with a large ashtray held close to his face, but she had eventually agreed to step down. The suit was filed by Mr. Hubbard's third wife, Mary Sue Hubbard, the stepmother of Mr. Hubbard's oldest son, Ronald DeWolf. 95 quotes from L. Ron Hubbard: 'Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.', 'When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. January 8, 1983 Mary Sue Hubbard, wife of the founder of the Church of Scientology, was sentenced in federal court here yesterday to four years in prison for her role in a conspiracy to plant. "[14] Cyril Vosper, one of the Saint Hill staff at the time, noted the differing impressions left by the Hubbards: "I always had great warmth and admiration for Ron he was a remarkable individual, a constant source of new information and ideas but I thought Mary Sue was an exceedingly nasty person. Who Is L. Ron Hubbard's Wife? This, plus her absolute control of the GO, made it difficult for the Church missionaires [Sea Org staff dispatched to achieve a target or specific goal] to get anything done. [59], In July 1981, all remaining GO staff were ordered to join the Sea Org, which would thus secure the CMO's control of the Guardian's Office, and the current Guardian, Jane Kember who was one of those convicted on conspiracy charges was to be removed. Please report problems, errors or suggestions to heldal@online.no Download all files as ZIP archive(745Kb) Back to introduction DATE TO FROM DESCRIPTION 16 May 1940 FBI L Ron Hubbard Reporting on a possible Nazi. was carrying out in California. With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 350 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most enduring and widely read authors of our time. Northrup told Cooper that Hubbard was a dangerous lunatic, and that although her own life had been transformed when she left him, she was still afraid both of him and of his followers,[92] whom she later described as looking "like Mormons, but with bad complexions. [50] Her husband avoided being indicted but was extremely concerned that Mary Sue would betray him. Mary Sue strongly opposed these changes and reappointed herself Controller, rescinding the CMO's permission to investigate the GO. In June 1951, she finally secured the return of Alexis by agreeing to cancel her receivership action and divorce suit in California in return for a divorce "guaranteed by L. Ron Hubbard". Miscavige provided a first-hand account of these events, in an affidavit submitted in a case heard in 1994 in California, Church of Scientology International vs. Steven Fishman and Uwe Geertz. I felt as though he had given so much to our country and I couldn't even bring him peace of mind. [62] She had consulted doctors who "concluded that said Hubbard was hopelessly insane, and, crazy, and that there was no hope for said Hubbard, or any reason for her to endure further; that competent medical advisers recommended that said Hubbard be committed to a private sanatorium for psychiatric observation and treatment of a mental ailment known as paranoid schizophrenia."[62]. Hubbard was struggling with illness in 1980 and he was living in San Luis Obisbo . That title that states that L. Ron Hubbard built the Georgia Guidestones is absurd. . She was Hubbard's personal auditor and along with Hubbard, one of the seven members of the Dianetics Foundation's Board of Directors. [34], The Scientology fleet was finally disbanded in 1975, when Hubbard decided to move ashore and establish a "land base" in Florida. Numerous other Guardian's Office personnel were purged as well. Several ships were purchased to serve as the quarters of the newly created "Sea Org". He was struggling with constant writer's block and leaned heavily on Northrup to provide plot ideas and even to help write some of his stories. Northrup was one of five children born to Thomas Cowley, an Englishman working for the Standard Oil Company, and his wife, Olga Nelson, the daughter of a Swedish immigrant to the United States. or so the stories go. They married April 25, 1909, in Omaha, Nebraska. Currently intimate with them but evidently under coercion. He was having a lot of problems with her. But Dianetics will last 10,000 years for the Army and Navy have it now. In the summer of 1972, Hubbard ordered that around $2 million in cash be transferred from OTC bank accounts in Switzerland to the Apollo, where it was stored for the next three years in a locked file cabinet to which Mary Sue Hubbard had the only set of keys. He had Dick de Mille reciting this sort of thing day and night to her. "[79] Hubbard also gave a new explanation of why he had been involved with Jack Parsons and the O.T.O. On its most basic level, "The Master" is a primordial myth about a man seeking his lost father (Freddie's dad, we learn, died long ago) and a father seeking his lost son (Dodd's own son . Northrup, who was beginning a pregnancy, was said to have been delighted with the location. Hubbard spread allegations that she was a Communist secret agent and repeatedly denounced her to the FBI. On one occasion, while Northrup was pregnant, Hubbard kicked her several times in the stomach in an apparent though unsuccessful attempt to induce an abortion. Meals for the Commodore and his family were cooked in a separate galley by their personal chef, using ingredients brought by couriers from the United States.[26]. [1], Mary Sue Whipp was born in Rockdale, Texas, to Harry Hughes Whipp (Sept 2, 1893 Oct 30 1942) and Mary Catherine (ne Hill) Whipp. He sold his first story in February 1934, an adventure tale called "The Green God" that featured a heroic American killing a bunch of Chinese bad guys. [53] Mary Sue, who had last met with her husband a few months before his disappearance, never saw or heard from him again. From 1941 to 1945 she had a turbulent relationship with her sister's husband John Whiteside Parsons, a pioneer in liquid-fueled rocketry and head of the Pasadena O.T.O. I have no revenge motive nor am I trying to angle this broader than it is.