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-*as been discovered that Dr. Rhine's patented ESP cards can be read from the back when light is reflected from the back of the card at a certain angle. This, of course, is not true if a shield is interposed between the cards and the clairvoyant.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Margery Plays Cards | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

The question is how to get Prima Donna Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) from Manhattan to the Argentine, to fulfill an engagement in Buenos Aires. Her faded diva aunt (Helen Westley) insists that she go to Paris instead. Up from the pampas come Emissary James Guthrie (Melvyn Douglas) and his stooge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 20, 1937 | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

Finishing touch to "curing me of my epoch" was added when Tony gave Mabel Dodge a dose of the Mexican drug peyote as a cure for dysentery. Awake all night, a clairvoyant vision showed her that "all this learning in the brain, and never in the blood was ended." In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vol. IV, Marriage IV | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

And General Farley has given the Senate, out of the kindness of his patronizing heart, the privilege of talking as long as it wants, but when the votes are mustered the reorganization will go through. It is impossible to contest the judgment of so clairvoyant a political prophet. The reorganization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE KING'S MEN | 4/20/1937 | See Source »

Bowing slightly, the clairvoyant ended the brief seance. The next in line was a fluttery shop girl, who seemed to know all the answers, anyway.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clairvoyant in Keith's Grand Lounge Predicts Abolition of Parietal Ruling | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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