Charles Boswell - Great Fuss and Fume Over the Omnipotent Oom

An excerpt from the article, published in the Man's Magazine in January of 1965:

"A year after the first World War, a middle-aged male calling himself Dr. Pierre Arnold Bernard--who also was known as the Omnipotent Oom--suddenly appeared in the village of Nyack, 15 miles up the Hudson River from New York City, and bought the show place of the area. This was an estate more than a century old, and Oom got it cheap, reputedly for $100,000."