Boston’s own love-cult leader, Dr. Hugh Manity, gave New England’s newspapers plenty of fodder in 1933 when he was arrested in his Cathedral of Cosmos for practicing medicine without a license. “Cosmical harmony becomes discord upon arrival of state police,” announced the Boston Globe on March 25, 1933. Manity followed a long New England tradition ...
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