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...couples is the U. of C.'s not-too-scientific attempt to show them, by means of dolls, what their children will look like. Couples press buttons underneath the two dolls who most resemble them; machinery whirrs and out pops a puppet combining the physical characteristics of the parent dolls...
Month ago Lincoln's Parent-Teacher Association held a meeting, and Dr. Del Manzo admitted that a merger was likely. Thereupon up rose Nelson Rockefeller (John D.'s grandson), a Lincoln alumnus whose seven-year-old son Rodman is now in the school, to announce that he was having an investigation of the school made by leading educators. Chief investigator: Dr. Luther H. Gulick, director of the Regents' recent $500,000 survey of New York's public schools...
...ungrammatical grocer's clerk, Gregory Parent, recounted to Garland some queer doings of his late wife, Violet. Guided by the spirit of a dead Indian named Two Bear, Violet Parent for nine years had led gullible neighbors through cactus, poison oak and 3,000 miles of broiling California sunshine. Their reward was to find money in rusty cans and rotted pocketbooks, which the Parents kept. Also found were 1,500 crude lead crosses (Mrs. Parent's first husband was a metal worker). The Parents claimed that these crosses were Indian relics...
Busy with his Forty Years of Psychic Research at the time he heard this, Author Garland discovered too late that Gregory Parent "had passed into the 'fourth dimension.' " But for pan royalties in the present book a medium attempted to con-tact the Parents in the spirit world...
...hear what he asked the spirits. Once he put a lollypop in her mouth so she could not talk for them. The spirits squeaked on. Garland conversed with ghosts of Henry Fuller, an old friend, Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Jack London ("Why not Columbus?" asked one irritated ghost). Violet Parent and an assortment of dead Indians, padres and conquistadors, who told him where more crosses could be found. When they were not, the voice of Henry Fuller took charge. Result: 16 new crosses, found mostly under loose rock and bushes. Five museums to which Garland submitted his finds remained annoyingly...