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The art of most ghostbusters is to expose the tricks performed by fake spirit mediums. Last week Ghostbuster Joseph Dunninger went a step farther. At a seance in the Manhattan offices of Science and Invention, in broad daylight, before 20 perplexed witnesses, he showed a number of "mystical" phenomena which...
The National Jewish Hospital has as director of its research laboratory Harry John Corper, Chicago-born pathologist. He has as co-worker Nao Uyei, U. S.-educated Japanese organic chemist. The two pottered around with sputum, acids, dyes and mediums on which bacteria grow. And eventually they found that sulphuric...
Hastily he planted the scrapings in test tubes with germ culture mediums. He sealed the tubes so that no modern air could affect the scrapings. If he did have pre-Cambrian life in his tubes modern air would spoil his research, for the earth's present atmosphere is quite...
In the New Masonic Temple, where the convention held its sessions, the exposition was placed on the ground floor. Here could be seen, in 300 booths, the result of the enterprise of 225 individual exhibitors. Newssheets, manufacturers, magazines, cinema companies, mechanical contrivances were brought to the attention of the advertising...
Last week, having shamed several mediums who nibbled at his bets, Conjurer Dunninger performed his stunts for benefit of press. Trussed up in a leather harness, his hands encased in mittens that were sewn to his sleeves, tied to a chair by a rope of which the knots were sealed...