Word: bridey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quest for Bridey Hammerschlaugen (Stan Freberg; Capitol). A parody of the well-publicized hypnotic journey into previous incarnations to search for Bridey Murphy. This Bridey declares she lives outside Rome in 200 A.D., and is an usherette at the Colosseum. And she has a hot tip: put a bundle on Ben Hur in the fifth...
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...deeply and sincerely resent the type of journalism practiced in the March 19 Press section; although I have no connection with the principals of the "Bridey Murphy" story-except that I am acquainted with Bill Barker-I do know that all means have been taken to prevent the publication of the real name of "Ruth Simmons." TIME disregarded the plea for privacy voiced by Mr. Barker in the Denver Post and, in the very sarcastic manner that seems to have invaded your fine magazine, told the whole story like a schoolboy at a Peeping Tom session...
Animals have a memory but no intellect. Man has both, but the memory is an organic faculty, not a spiritual one. The inconsistencies in the Bridey Murphy revelations are understandable. Even if Ruth Simmons (Virginia Tighe) had lived before as Bridey, the only things she could remember are those which happened to her as the present Ruth Simmons...
Thank you for the article on the true "discovery" of Bridey Murphy. No matter how hard we try, we still must face the inescapable: ". . . . It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment...