Word: bridey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play? Was it a flop? Was it a clinker? No, it was a super-disaster called Snowshoes and presented last week over CBS's Playhouse 90. There are these racetrack types down and out in Miami and they get a race horse and then somebody thinks of Bridey Murphy and a hypnotist makes the horse think he's Man o' War, or does he? and then . . . Well, that was the way it went. Trendex gave Snowshoes a high rating, which ought to make Playhouse 90, its sponsors and its network worry: Will many of those millions ever...
...Poets' Theatre proves once and for all that Bridey Murphy is an intellectual in its first production of the year. The Lady and Her Sources, which concerns the biography of a very alive pretty young girl who has been dead for 100 years, finally asserts the Poets' penchant for clear thinking. The Bald Soprano, a farce, also got hilarious reviews. Today...
...Bridey Murphy has faded away into the thin air that produced her, but a weird new phenomenon is loose in the land; a teen-age craze for a boyish Hollywood actor named James Dean, who has been dead for eleven months. Barely a celebrity when he was killed in a sports-car crackup, Dean last week was haunting U.S. newsstands, which are plastered with four fast-selling magazines devoted wholly to him, e.g., Jimmy Dean Returns! ("Read his own words from the beyond!"). The actor is also a current "must" in every movie magazine, while three national magazines...
...doctors and considers Christian Science a "totalitarian Church," New Thought shares with Christian Science much matter if little manner. Some of last week's subjects: "Freedom from Disease," "A Grand Time Living." The Rev. Ervin Seale of Manhattan's Church of Truth titled his lecture "Where Is Bridey Murphy Now?" and suggested that perhaps she was "in" Hypnotist Morey Bernstein. The Rev. Sarah Solada of the First Church of Understanding in Detroit gave her audience a "treatment" for money. Instructing them to clutch a dollar bill tight while she was talking, she went on: "You want to love...
...national furor over The Search for Bridey Murphy (TIME, March 19), one rational theory gained ground to explain how a hypnotized housewife in Colorado could "recall" a 19th century existence as Bridey, a redhead in Cork. The theory: Housewife Virginia Tighe, under hypnosis, had simply woven the story out of odds and ends that lay in her subconscious mind from childhood. That was the trail that Hearst's Chicago American took in searching for Bridey Murphy. Digging into Mrs. Tighe's Chicago childhood, American reporters found a wealth of names and incidents that looked plainly like...