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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everybody has wondered what would happen if people could read each other's minds. In The Thought-Reading Machine amiable, yea-saying André Maurois gives them the power, finds people's secret thoughts are not so bad. Professor Dumoulin was lecturing at a U. S. university when a colleague handed him what looked like a rolled-up copy of FORTUNE, said it was an invention for recording secret thoughts. Dumoulin secretly tried it on his wife, unearthed a startling hodgepodge of sentimental memories of an early lover, resentment against himself. But when he taxed her about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Secret Thoughts | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...sliding panels and lists of people whose names were not divulged. French agents announced that the real head of the Ring was one Violette Levine, a U. S. schoolteacher. But the shy Violette could not be found. Seven more people were arrested for espionage last week, including a Col. Dumoulin, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, accused of selling documents stolen from the War College, and Camille André, a onetime stockbroker who attempted to peddle naval plans which neither the British nor Japanese consulates in Marseilles needed. Announced the Sûreté Générale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Eggshells & Espionage | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

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