Religion: Silly Fool

Wilbur Glenn Voliva, general overseer of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church of Zion, Ill., steward of all its earthly treasure, appeared before 1,500 of his flock last week in Zion Tabernacle. Since he returned from his trip around the world to prove that it is flat (TIME, March 16), it. had been reported that he was dying. "I shall not die until 1976!" he cried. (He is now 61.) "I merely-scalded my foot while bathing. I was a silly fool to scald myself and will never go near a bathtub again as long as...

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