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The Scientology Story: The Making of L. Ron Hubbard // Chapter 3: Life With L. Ron Hubbard

Title: The Scientology Story: The Making of L. Ron Hubbard // Chapter 3: Life With L. Ron Hubbard
Date: Sunday, 24 June 1990
Publisher: Los Angeles Times (California)
Authors: Joel Sappell, Robert W. Welkos
Main source: articles.latimes.com

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Aides indulged his eccentricities and egotism. L. Ron Hubbard enjoyed being pampered. He surrounded himself with teen-age followers, whom he indoctrinated, treated like servants and cherished as though they were his own children. He called them the "Commodore's messengers." " 'Messenger!' " he would boom in the morning. "And we'd pull him out of bed," one recalled. The youngsters, whose parents belonged to Hubbard's Church of Scientology, would lay out his clothes, run his shower and help him dress. He taught ... [Read the rest at articles.latimes.com]