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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sparked by a New York World-Telegram and Sun exposé (TIME, March 7), the grand jury investigation disrobed seasoned ghosts. Among them: Morris Needleman, 52, assistant principal of a Brooklyn elementary school, and Joseph Lasky, 72, who advertised himself as a former instructor at New York University. Slickest of all: debonair Freelance Writer James Butterly, who is charged with taking an exam in adolescent psychology for a dullard student at Columbia's Teachers College. Though Butterly is a grey-haired ghost of 54 and his client was 23, officials suspected nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Catching the Ghosts | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

...Ghost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1960 | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...answer is no, it was not. No one likes sitting on his astral plane more than I do, but I am far too stingy to contemplate being haunted by someone else's cut, so I am neither ghost-ridden nor ghostwritten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1960 | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...Gustav Regler's autobiography reads as if it were ghostwritten, it is probably because it was written by a ghost. The ghost is Regler himself, in his time a noisy political poltergeist. With a good man's dedication to his delusions, he played a man's part in inhuman situations throughout three dreadful decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Ghost Walks | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

...Juan Hill, it seemed as if they were being reviewed by a long-legged, black-clad civilian on muleback who sported a red tie and a straw boater. It was William Randolph Hearst, whose yacht lay offshore. "Hey, Willie!" yelled the troops. The deadpan press lord managed only the ghost of a smile, doffed his boater and said mildly, "Boys, good luck be with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quaint Little Hell | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

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