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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Unfinished as it is, Lucien Leuwen is a true coin of Stendhal's genius; only the edges want milling. It ranks almost with The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma, the great novels which Stendhal wrote before & after it; and it marks the mid-point in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Swim in the Mud | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

In 1848, Margaret and Katie Fox, two mischievous little girls of Hydesville, N.Y., thought up a way to mystify their ma. In bed at night they tied an apple to a string and bumped it loudly on the floor. Hearing the sonorous raps, Mrs. Fox climbed upstairs to investigate, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Avocation in Ectopiffle | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

A century later, thousands of men & women still answer Mrs Fox's query with a fervent yes. For the Fox sisters, though they later went on tour to confess that their apparent psychic powers were an "absolute fraud," really started something. By 1854 (while the Fox sisters were still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Avocation in Ectopiffle | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Once the Kettle. This sort of thing may strike the average man as harmless pother, but not Author Rinn. At 82, he is a onetime Manhattan produce broker and skilled amateur magician who has spent most of a lifetime trying to expose fake mediums as "the vilest gang of crooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Avocation in Ectopiffle | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Like his friend and fellow fake-hunter, Magician Harry Houdini, Rinn spent a long time looking for evidence of psychic power he could believe in. As a youngster, he was bowled over when a medium ordered him to place the spout of a kettle to his ear and thus receive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Avocation in Ectopiffle | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

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