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Bridey Murphy-born A.D. 1798, died 1864-first appeared in print in the fall °f J954, soon after a chance remark by Robert Cast, an attorney of Pueblo (pop. 80,800). Said Cast to his brother-in-law, William J. ("Bark") Barker of the Denver Post's Sunday supplement Empire: "Do you think there might be a story in a guy who has discovered that a woman in Pueblo lived an earlier life in Ireland in the 1800s?" Replied Newsman Barker: "Hell, yes." He wrote the story. Empire ran it in three installments as "The Strange Search...
Last January, with some manuscript advice from Newsman Barker, Morey Bernstein, 36, a Pueblo businessman who sells farm and mining equipment, told the story again in his book (TIME, Feb. 20). Bernstein, an amateur hypnotist, had put Housewife Tighe, who uses the name Ruth Simmons to avoid publicity, into a trance in which she conjured up an earlier incarnation as Bridey, a redheaded lass born in Cork. What made the story chillingly persuasive was the mass of circumstantial detail about people, places and customs that Mrs. Tighe recounted in a brogue and in words that seemed utterly foreign...
...beguiling schemer, and the Metropolitan's Robert Rounseville as Mr. Snow. And when Julie's aunt Nettie, Claramae Turner, sang "You'll Never Walk Alone," the audience had a good collective cry. With the help of such effective portrayals, the story of sweet Carrie's marriage to a carnival barker is still moving...
Joseph W. Barker, president and chairman of the Research Corporation, announced the selection and noted that Woodward, in becoming the twentieth recipient of the award, "joined a distinguished company including Vannevar Bush, Percy W. Birdgman, Ernest C. Lawrence, Bruno Rossi, Edwin M. McMillan, Edward C. Kendall, Samuel A. Goudsmit, and George E. Uhlenbeck...
...Ashforth sounded a little more like a barker making a midway spiel than a banker making a year-end report, he had good reason. Any Canadian taking stock of the nation's economy at the close of 1955 was bound to be buoyant. The year had begun with some 500,000 unemployed, and with spreading fears that Canada's postwar boom might be collapsing. Not only did such fears turn out to be unfounded, but 1955 turned out to be the best year Canada ever had. In Ottawa last week, the chief watchman of the country...