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Religion: Garner Ted Returns

"Garner Ted Armstrong, where are you?" The familiar pitchman's voice wasted no time answering itself: "I'm alive and well and on the air on this radio station!" So he was, on stations across the country, once again softselling the messages of the Worldwide Church of God. Earlier this year Garner Ted Armstrong had slipped mysteriously into exile, apparently having committed some nameless disgrace before his church and its founder, his imperious father, Herbert W. Armstrong (TIME, May 15). Now he has eased back onto the scene, staying out of sight in the church's home base, Pasadena, Calif., but resuming his popular...

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