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Catchiest of the good tunes by Lew Pollack & Sidney D. Mitchell seems to be It's Love I'm After, sung by Judy Garland, a 14-year-old Murfreesboro, Tenn. girl...
...Philadelphia, upon returning from the funeral of her first husband, Mrs. May K. Burton, 37, applied for a license to marry Garland F. Kelley, one of the pallbearers...
...members of the victorious team are: Wesley L. Furste, 2nd '37, Guy Garland '36, Maurice Lazarus '37, Robert E. Rogers '38, Frank M. Sommers '37, and Clarence M. Wilmarth...
...those familiar with the popular literature of spiritualism, what Researcher Garland has to tell will be nothing new. He and his fellow-researchers did what they could to cramp the mediums' style, by tying them to their chairs, tacking their skirts to the floor, putting rustly newspapers on their laps. In spite of these bonds tables gyrated, pianos played, "ectoplasmic" faces made luminous appearances, megaphones whispered remarks from dead-&-gone characters on "the other side.'' Investigator Garland was impressed but noticed some incongruities. "I confess that it was a bit surprising to find Socrates and Julius Caesar...
...Garland's conclusion: the phenomena are inexplicable but their interpretation is too hopeful. Spiritualism naturally draws people who have been bereaved, but their faith is "a fairy story with a heartache in it." Garland thinks mediums are often sincere but are probably subconscious frauds. His guess at the queer things he heard, saw, felt: "They all originate in the seance room and have not been proven to go beyond...