Word: fellowes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...reason for its success among physicians is that the originator of Rex Morgan is a doctor himself who uses the pen name "Dal Curtis." His identity is kept a secret by Publishers Syndicate because Curtis, now 40, is practicing in an Eastern city and he fears his fellow doctors wouldn't like the idea of his comic-stripping on the side...
This novel stockholders' meeting was the latest idea of Hawaiian Pineapple's President Henry Arthur White, who for the past four years has had his star employees explain the workings of Hawaiian Pineapple to their fellow workers (in Chinese, Japanese and English). This year he began flying his employees around the islands to see the different operations firsthand (TIME, April 24). The results were so successful that he decided to bring the employees to the mainland to tell the stockholders what they had learned...
Like his friend and fellow fake-hunter, Magician Harry Houdini, Rinn spent a long time looking for evidence of psychic power he could believe in. As a youngster, he was bowled over when a medium ordered him to place the spout of a kettle to his ear and thus receive the words of a "spirit voice." Only after he himself became a magician did Rinn realize that he had been duped (out of $5) by a double-bottomed kettle equipped like a telephone receiver and in contact with a "spirit" hidden behind a panel...
Always the Normal. Thenceforth, Magician Rinn fervently practiced what he and most of his fellow magicians insistently preached: that no "spirit manifestation" existed that they could not duplicate by plain trickery. They showed how clammy "spirit hands" (that brushed the brows of spectators at dark séances) were concocted out of paraffin or simply from "a kid glove filled with wet sawdust . . . kept on ice." One piece of so-called "ectoplasm" ("ectopiffle would be a better name," remarked a surly magician) proved to be a chunk of animal lung. The only "spirit body" that Rinn failed to duplicate...
...Violent. Most Americans know James Thurber for the funny fellow who draws cartoons and who analyzed the daydream of grandeur in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Yet Thurber is only every other inch a comic writer; in between, he is a psychologist as keen as any now writing in the U.S. Like most writers of unusual, not to say violent imagination, Thurber cannot always control it. There are passages in all his fairy tales (especially in The White Deer) so loaded with verbal gems-and costume jewelry too-that they clink...