Word: bridey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SEARCH FOR BRIDEY MURPHY (256 pp.) - Morey Bernstein - Doubleday...
...simple Irish lass named Bridey Murphy has now resolved the puzzle that so troubled Hamlet. Bridey died in Belfast in 1864, but in 1952 and '53 she came back from "the undiscover'd country" to tell a well-to-do Colorado businessman and amateur hypnotist named Morey Bernstein what it is like after death...
...course this was not quite the same Bridey that married the son of a Cork barrister and danced Irish jigs. Thanks to the mystery of reincarnation, she is now Mrs. Ruth Simmons, wife of a Pueblo auto dealer. Stretched out on a couch in a deep trance, with witnesses aplenty and a tape recorder taking it all down, Bridey-Ruth under hypnosis answered a few questions about life beyond the grave...
...Search for Bridey Murphy, Author Bernstein has nothing new to say about hypnosis or reincarnation. But his amateur zeal, and perhaps the need for something to take the place of the slipping Power of Positive Thinking, has made his sessions with Ruth Simmons one of the fastest-selling books in the U.S. today. Already more than 70,000 copies have been printed, and another 100,000 are coming from the presses. The movies have picked up the book for a rumored $50,000, and 30 newspapers have taken it for serialization. As might have been expected, Bridey is doing best...
...referees' locker-room after the game, Bridey admitted that he must have made a mistake, but said he yelled to Bucknell at the time "Fourth and ten" and, no one complained. Harvard coach Lloyd Jordan said, "Everyone makes mistakes, and the referees had their...