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...barred hypnotists from television (TIME, Dec. 30, 1946) because of a private test during which four of six BBC staffers went to sleep. In Paris this spring, Egyptian Fakir Tahra Bey allegedly hypnotized part of his studio audience and some of his countrywide listeners over a Radio Diffusion Français program...
...year-old Smuts lost his . own seat by 224 votes. He tendered his resignation as Prime Minister to Governor General Gideon Brand van Zyl, who asked the Nationalist leader-myopic, paunchy Dr. Daniel François Malan - to take over. Dr. Malan (pronounced mah-lahn) is a onetime predikant (minister) of the Dutch Reformed Church, was once a Sundayschool pupil of Smuts. Malan left his pulpit to edit a Nationalist paper, has been in politics ever since...
...Françcaise: "His work is the most flagrantly unpunished intellectual and moral scandal of the century." Thirty years after his first book, he lamented: "I have scarcely known, throughout my 'career,' anything but flops...
...efforts to halt rising prices, and his coalition government fell, the situation might be beyond the power of any new coalition to solve. That would almost certainly mean an early showdown between the two challenging opposites in France today-Charles de Gaulle's super-party, Rassemblement du Peuple Français, and the Communists. The end of Schuman might mean the end of parliamentary rule as France had known...
Last week Charbonneau sounded off again. He told La Société des Editeurs Canadiens du Livre Français: "It is by being Canadians and proud of it that our writers will assert themselves. . . . While modern French literature is in full decadence, while its techniques are obsolete . . . why should our younger writers continue to tie themselves exclusively...