Word: spiritualists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...persons willing to hear from both camps two new books were at hand last week containing excellent statements pro & con. One author is a Baltimore-born Johns Hopkins psychologist who does his ghost-hunting with affability and scientific guile. The other is an elderly, dead-earnest, British-born spiritualist who has written some 70 books and papers on psychic phenomena, now heads the American Psychical Institute. All that the two books have in common is that both are readably written and each is dedicated to the author's wife...
...Spiritualist Hereward Carrington's treatise is called Loaves & Fishes.* Mr. Carrington makes it clear that spiritualist philosophy needs no recourse to the supernatural. Everything that occurs must be a part of Nature. True, some weird things that happen are out of the ordinary; but these he prefers to call supernormal. They answer to "higher" psychic laws, would probably be objects of widespread scientific research if scientists were not afraid to confess how staggered they are by what goes on in seances. Mr. Carrington apparently accepts everything in the spiritualist showcases from crystal-gazing to astral projections and ghosts (which...
...Same Meat Sirs: Need Hitlerite "Bait" Rosenberg waste all those words to explain a concept of holiness [TIME, Sept. 30]? Twenty-one years ago, it was compacted into the simple phrase, "Gott mit Vns." The world understood it then and still does understand it. And no matter how thin Spiritualist Rosenberg may slice it, it will always taste the same, and will always be recognized as the same ill-served, German-adopted variety of meat. RALPH C. WELCH Schenectady...
...Belgian husband a profitable shaving cream business (Shavex). Fiftyish, she heads three corporations, is a director of twelve. She claims that she sleeps on two hours a night, is never tired. In her swank Kensington home she fondles a fine collection of Oriental objets d'art, hole spiritualist meetings, makes phonograph records of them. Lately she has been untiring in behalf of one Leonard Albert Brigstock, onetime petty officer in His Majesty's Navy, sentenced to hang for slitting the throat of Chief Petty Office Deggan on the gunnery training ship Marshal Soult. Crusader Van der Elst assembled...
...Again], satire (The Dark Horse), musicomedy (Gold Diggers of 1933), melodrama (The Mouthpiece), costume romance (Honor of the Family}, sentimental comedy (Lady for a Day) and DeMillery (Cleopatra), often works in two or more pictures simultaneously. Married, he lives in a small house in Hollywood. His grandfather was a spiritualist, his father a country publisher. He studies navigation, owns and sails a schooner named Pegasus. Embarrassed by autograph seekers, he says: "If they guess who I am, I sign. If they guess someone else, I don't. Who do they think I am? Well, I'll just let you guess...