Word: besterman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another spiritualist development of last week was the resignation ol Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from the British Society for Psychical Research, after 36 years membership. Reason: the flaying, by Theodore Besterman. Secretary of the Society, of a book delineating wonders accomplished by an Italian medium...
After reviewing the performance of the medium. Besterman concluded: "To put forward such a book as this as a serious contribution to psychical research . . . with such claims of infallibility ... is to bring our subject into contempt and disrepute...