Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With this new drawing card, Mount Wilson will probably get more visitors than ever before. But 65-year-old Albert Childs hopes not to be there to greet them. After 24 years on his mountain (with only two ten-day vacations), he thinks it is time "to go down off the mountain and see something of the world." Then he wants to settle down to his favorite hobby -astronomy...
When young (36) Mario Lasso was Mexican consul general in Chicago, by appointment of his uncle, Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, he took personal care of tourist-card applications filed by particularly pretty girls. That was how he met his second and present wife, tiny, blonde Flora Dancy, 24, of Clinton, Ind., whom he brought back to Mexico last fall when he returned to run Uncle Ezequiel's presidential campaign. Says Flora of husband Mario: "Yes, a great wolf...
...psychic games which Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine introduced to science-Extra-Sensory Perception (card-guessing) and Psychokinesis (crap-shooting)-psychologists have found crapshooting more fun. Rhine's PK ("mind over matter") theory, that man can control the fall of dice by will power (TIME, July 26, 1943), is now being tested on both sides of the Atlantic...
...league's leading batter (.383) was Cuba's Claro Duany; and the only high-priced U.S. batsman who was close was ex-Giant Nap Reyes (.375). Onetime major leaguers Luis Olmo, Danny Gardella and George Hausmann had sagged fought, out of the .300 class. The Card's fugitive Max Lanier had won six and lost one, but some of the home-grown pitchers were doing better. Pasquel's favorite club, Vera Cruz, well stocked with U.S. talent, was in last place; Mickey Owen, batting only .243, had been fired as manager...
...Intimations of Eve, Children of God, etc.). But he is never too busy to argue. Five years ago Publisher Margaret Cobb Ailshie (TIME, Aug. 5) let contentious Vardis Fisher argue the case for isolationism in her interventionist Boise Idaho Statesman. Before she knew it, she had a new drawing card...