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...Spiritualist. Spooks were always among Doyle's chief interests. The later years of his life have been almost wholly devoted to studying psychic phenomena and broadcasting his conclusions. He assures the reader that he has chatted with spirits, held their hands, smelt ectoplasm, seen prophecies fulfilled, seen heavy objects flying about, heard supernatural whistling and singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sherlock Holmes* | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

...believe that the quickest way to kill broadcasting would be to use it for direct advertising. The reader of the newspaper has an option whether he will read an ad or not, but if a speech by the President is to be used as the meat in a sandwich of two patent medicine advertisements, there will be no radio left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radio Congress | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

...cost of reading a single typewritten page . . . $82.32 and $124.98, in inverse proportion to the pace of the reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: De Luxe | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

...Acquits Ford? Henry Ford?" exclaimed the reader. No, it was Captain Samuel Ford, the story explained. Henry Ford's name was nowhere mentioned. Yet what more natural that one should think of him? There had been no prominent series of stories on the case. What Fords other than Henry and Edsel are well known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Equivocal | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

...more obvious example of equivocal headlining appeared last week in The New York Times. Wrote a New York Times reader to the editor of that daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Equivocal | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

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