Word: crandon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goddard Crandon, whose professional name is "Margery," is a celebrated Boston medium whose doings are well known to spiritualists the world over. Wife of a suave and wealthy surgeon, Margery does not use her singular gifts to turn over a profit. Her control, who speaks and thinks for her when she is entranced, is "Walter," a deceased brother. Some years ago Margery asserted that fingerprints mysteriously produced in dental wax were Walter's-hence ectoplasmic. A furor broke loose when Prof. Harold Cummins, Tulane University anatomist, testified that the fingerprints were those of a living Boston dentist...
...were as old as I am, you'd realize that one thing after another turns out to be of little scientific importance," closed Professor Bering. "Just as the German horse and Mrs. Crandon did not withstand scientific investigation, so the Rhine effect may not bear fruit...
...cases of spiritistc phenomena comes only after the observers go home and think it over," said Dr. M. W. Richardson '89, last night. Richardson was one of the authors of the report on the Margery psychic experiments carried on during the last ten years by Dr. L. R. G. Crandon '94. Harvard professors have been members of various groups investigating the phenomena. "The question of whether or not the phenomena were supernatural or not depended on the degree of the observer's belief that control of the psychic was perfect," he said...
...psychic, "Margery," Mrs. Crandon, removed all clothing before the seances at Harvard, says a signed state- ment of the Harvard group in Dr. Crandon's report. "She wore into the seance room one warm woolen garment," Electric torches, large megaphones, bells, baskets, all illuminated by phosphorescent paint, formed the psychic's equipment. "Several professors wore illuminated Electric bands on feet and wrists, and illuminated marks fastened on the center of the forehead with tape." Twenty minutes after the session began, "Walter," the spirit, began to speak. "This is a nice, comfortable room: looks like the Charlestown Jall. What's this...
...Crandon would not make a statement of any kind, when reached by telephone at his Boston office yesterday...