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...after a speech at a fund raiser in Munster, Ind., Wattleton stretched out her legs in the back of a white limousine cruising along Route 20 toward Chicago. Arredondo reached for Wattleton's note pad and stared at it intently. Arredondo is a family-planning specialist by training, a graphologist by avocation. Without taking her eyes off Wattleton's handwriting, she began to speak. You're idealistic and self-controlled, she told Wattleton. You're a bit possessive. You can keep a secret. Wattleton's face was a mask. You dwell a great deal on the past, Arredondo continued...
TIME submitted a sampling of presidential doodles to Graphologist Andrea McNichol. Her comments...
...satellite's flat rear surface turns to face the radar antenna, the reflected pulses become even more intense. The changing pattern that forms on the radar screen is unique for that tumbling projectile, a distinctive signature that scientists can use to identify and describe it-much as a graphologist uses handwriting to identify the man who handled...
Students of handwriting as well as the courts have accepted this long-standing assumption. Robert Saudek, London graphologist, set out to uncover exceptions.* In the March issue of Duke University's Character and Personality ("An International Quarterly for Psychodiagnostics and Allied Studies'') published this week, he reproduces twelve lines of bold, graceful, rapidly written script, with this comment: "It is out of the question that ten years ago any expert would have admitted the possibility . . . that parts of this specimen could have been written by different persons...
...recently published Anonymous Letters: A Study in Crime and Handwriting, Graphologist Saudek discusses the writing of twins, U. S. blackmail letters, the rôle of handwriting in France's famed Dreyfuss case...