Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume. 33, Number 10. 8 July, 1970
Big Jim Taylor
Big Jim Taylor
Jim Taylor spends most of his time travelling from one 'locality' to another. He has visited New Zealand four or five times since 1953. Each time he has stayed for a couple of weeks, living in the home of a prominent Exclusive. (The last time he was in Wellington he stayed with Ronald Deck.) I saw Taylor on each of his visits and had dinner with him once at Ronald Deck's house a few years ago. He is about seventy years old; a large, florid American. He speaks bad English (that is, grammatically bad) in a low monotone. Some of the Exclusives admitted to me that they too found Taylor pretty boring but most members of the sect who heard him hung attentively onto his every word. By repute, Taylor is friendly on the surface but ruthless in looking after "the Lord's interests". I have never heard of him having a conversation about anything else.