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...Gaulle or Communism? The political crisis was stepped up by the nationwide municipal elections (Oct. 19). Who would win, Charles de Gaulle's R.P.F. (Rassemblement du Peuple Français) or the Communists? If the R.P.F. won, De Gaulle would sooner or later come to power and move against the Communists. They would be faced with a hard choice: submission and virtual extinction or defiance and civil war. Russia would be faced with an even harder choice: should she support the French Communist Party with arms, or lose one of her biggest fifth columns in Europe...
...musicians of "lack of discipline and inadequate rehearsing." But nothing had gone awry with the orchestra, only with the soloists. Dutch journalist Henri van Eysden had an explanation. The astonishing amnesia of two soloists in one evening could be explained only by the kind of foul play that Novelist Du Maurier put Svengali up to in Trilby. It was all the fault of a Dutch building contractor who practiced hypnosis and mental telepathy as a hobby, he said. The contractor had laid a bet that he could wreck a concert by tele-hypnosis...
Paris-born Scientist-Author du Noüy was at one time a member of the Rockefeller Institute, head of biophysics at the Pasteur Institute, a director of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne. As a young officer in the French Army, he met Biologist Alexis Carrel (Man, the Unknown), under whose influence he became deeply interested in biophysics. In 1937, he attracted international attention with his book Biological Time ("Everything occurs as if sidereal time flowed four times faster for a man of 50 than for a child...
Toward Spirituality. Dr. du Noüy, who had studied with Radiologists Pierre and Mme. Curie, published some 200 papers, most of them technical, and seven books which showed his growing interest in building a philosophy and a religion upon the foundation of his scientific work...
With the help of his American wife, the former Mary Bishop Harriman, Dr. du Noüy wrote the current bestseller, Human Destiny (TIME, Feb. 24). In it he assembled impressive scientific and mathematical data to demonstrate that life could not have been the result of a chance combination of elements. Life, he said, must have been created for some long-range purpose. This purposiveness Scientist du Noüy called "telefinality." Mankind-the highest and most complex life-form of all-must, he believed, go on developing in the direction of spirituality, as exemplified by Christ...