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...Hint from a Hypnotist. Austrian Anton Mesmer, who gave his name (mesmerism) to a technique now called hypnotism, has been called a faker. More likely, some modern psychiatrists think, he was a stupid man who blundered into an idea too big for him: the phenomena of suggestion and suggestibility. A Frenchman, Jean Martin Charcot, demonstrated that hypnotism could both arouse and quiet symptoms of hysteria. Charcot also bid for fame as the teacher of a Viennese neurologist named Sigmund Freud (rhymes with overjoyed...
...Marquess of Blandford, 22. They were seen together at dinner, at dancing, and over afternoon milkshakes at the embassy canteen. They were seen together at the movies (where a photographer snapped them seated next to Clement Attlee's son Martin-see cut). What excited the gossips was the hint of a triangle: the tall young Guardsman was supposed to have another girl-Princess Margaret, who would be coming back to London soon from her summer holiday...
...Bible] is substantially the work of Moses. It is a closely knit literary unit and was originally conceived as one work written for a single purpose." Say the Protestant editors: "The Pentateuch did not receive its final form until about 400 B.C. . . . The contents of Genesis preserve no hint as to the names of its authors and editors . . . Whoever the author of Genesis was, he must have had ancient sources at his disposal, for no one man could have been witness to all the events described. This means that the present book is a composite work drawn from various sources...
...viewpoint, the special "Turnip Day" session had been a failure. Neither side had gained any political advantage, although Republican refusal to act made it easier for Harry Truman to pin a do-nothing label on the 80th Congress. But New York's Senator Irving Ives dropped a loud hint that Tom Dewey would probably disassociate himself from the G.O.P. congressional record in the campaign...
...student to watch was the Boston Mu seum School's Arthur Polonsky, whose sunlit Boy at the Fence succeeded in being touching without a hint of sentimentality. William Burden Jr., of Indianapolis' John Herron Institute, sent a finely patterned, authoritatively painted study of three bicycling kids. A Portrait o/Roslyn, by the. Pennsylvania Academy's Katherine Grove, showed just how finished student work can be, and the Rhode Island School of Design's Herbert Fink contributed a boy-iff-motion that few professionals would have dared tackle (see cuts...