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While there seems to have been no bona-fide clairvoyants, the campus boasted a surplus of phonies. Mental telepathy and thought transmission had become the latest fad in an era where undergraduates bit eagerly at any dish labeled exotic. There was Margery, who claimed telepathy limbs, and Dr. and Mrs. Crandon, another pair of popular mediums. The University, in an attempt to rip the blinders off a gullible populace, persuaded several instructors to sign up for seances to expose the spiritualists. Subsequently, the pair of prestidigitators packed up and left the town...
...human wreck that hobbled into the British occupation political office in Hannover and asked how to go about starting a political party made little impression-"An interesting but completely nondescript fellow," says a Briton who was there. Like all who spoke for a bona fide anti-Nazi group, Schumacher was told he could go ahead. He rallied Socialists around him, whipped up interest across Germany, paved the way for a national convention, the first for the Socialists since the Weimar days. There was no question who was boss, but there was a basic decision to be made...
...space-ships of course, and planets, galaxies and stars with all sorts of exotic, Greek-type names, too, but this is a basic ingredient which no science fiction magazine can do without. The stories in ASF are, however, based on calculations and shrewd hypotheses thought up by bona fide scientists, and most of them have an authentic flavor. The writing is certainly competent, though there are too many traces of Nick Carter dialogue to suit my taste. The writers manage to generate tension by the usual device of the twist ending and by figuring out original and pleasantly complicated plots...
...looking at the eight Observatories and the amount of published material accumulated during his reign, Shapley can review the work with pride. Following his many years of acting as administrator, of worrying about endowments and all types of equipment, the 66 year old professor is about to become a bona fide classroom educator...
...bona fides in this extraordinary case are known to the Turks, to the British and to security officers of JAMMAT (Joint Allied Military Mission to Aid Turkey...