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...stage piano played a mystic interpretation of "Every Little Movement Has a Meaning All Its own," the curtain of the Esquire Theatre went up on the Great Morton, hypnotist, mesmerist, psychometrist...
After this quick assurance that he wasn't a faker, and that we too had The Power, Dr. Robert Morton, B.A., Ph.D. (Nelson College, New Zealand) called for volunteers from the audience. Repeated assurances that no one would suffer great embarrassment finally lured 14 subjects up to the stage...
...deep sleep, and we're rolling along in a jolly old bus. Oops! Watch it, we're going around a curve. Ahh, that's better. Now watch the bumps--road under construction, can't you see the sign?" The subjects pitched, rolled, and bounced in accompaniment to Morton's suggestions...
...showed them the best spot for fishing. One young lady refused to bait her hook with a live worm, and received instead an artificial lure. After the ride they went to a party where the cheer flowed so freely that five of the subjects developed wretched hangovers when Morton told them it was the morning after...
Schorer's statement was made because one of the objectionable stories in the March issue was identified as a section of a novel, entitled "Steven Morton," which is being written by Seymour N Heifetz '52 in English 8b, a creative writing course taught this semester by Schorer...