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...With Fletcher's Help. The series of curious incidents eventually convinced Pike, who was at Cambridge University on a sabbatical leave from his California diocese, that James Jr. was trying to contact him from beyond the grave. Last week Pike revealed that he had communicated with his son no fewer than six times since then with the help of assorted sympathetic mediums. The most recent-and most dramatic-encounter took place last month in Toronto, where Pike participated in a televised séance with the Rev. Arthur A. Ford of Philadelphia, a Disciples of Christ minister...
After Ford went into a trance, "Fletcher" reported the forms of several of Pike's deceased friends emerging from "a great massive light." Some skeptics were unkind enough to suggest that Pike might have used this pipeline to the beyond to clear up his doubts about such doctrines as the Trinity and Virgin Birth, but the conversations were rather prosaic. A chat between Pike and his predecessor as Bishop of California, the Rt. Rev. Karl Block, dwelled on the problems of buying church property. An exchange with the late father of British theologian Donald MacKinnon elicited the helpful information...
First Person. More moving was the encounter between Pike and his son. "Fletcher" reported to Pike: "This boy says that before he came over he was confused and mentally disturbed. He wants you to understand that you, nor any other member of the family, have any right to feel that you failed him in any way." Later, according to Pike, James Jr. told him directly: "I want you to realize this, that I enjoyed the time I was with...
Davis said that he enjoyed the Patriots practice more than college football, but that he would now call it quits for good. "I see that injuries have made it useless for me to complete," he remarked. He will attend the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy at M.I.T. in the fall...
...them with various conspiracies. The presiding judge was Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who, according to Wobbly John Reed, had "the face of Andrew Jackson three years dead." The accused were found guilty and their sentences ran up to 35 years' imprisonment. Wobbly wit flickered a last time when Ben Fletcher, the only Negro defendant, cracked: "Judge Landis has been using bad English today-his sentences are too long...