Word: graphologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students of handwriting as well as the courts have accepted this long-standing assumption. Robert Saudek, London graphologist, set out to uncover exceptions.* In the March issue of Duke University's Character and Personality ("An International Quarterly for Psychodiagnostics and Allied Studies'') published this week, he reproduces twelve lines of bold, graceful, rapidly written script, with this comment: "It is out of the question that ten years ago any expert would have admitted the possibility . . . that parts of this specimen could have been written by different persons...
...recently published Anonymous Letters: A Study in Crime and Handwriting, Graphologist Saudek discusses the writing of twins, U. S. blackmail letters, the rôle of handwriting in France's famed Dreyfuss case...
...Associate editor is Ernest Seeman, manager of Duke University Press and a persistent collaborator -with the late Aviation Pioneer Samuel Langley in experiments on flights of vultures; with Astronomer Harlow Shapley on light rays and energy of insects; with the late Thomas Alva Edison and Louise Guest Rice (Manhattan graphologist) in a system of character analysis...
Sirs: TIME, May 19, p. 34, heading "Artists." Do Yale's Arthur Hiler Ruggles and Hamburg's Wilhelm Weygandt know of Louise Rice, New York graphologist, and her collection and studies of scribbles? Nationally and internationally known people, big business organizations, detectives, lawyers, unhappy couples, misfits, underworld characters-all take odd drawings and bits of scratchings to her. She's done farming, showboating on the Mississippi, reporting in the Bowery and Chinatown 35 years ago before modern artificial atmosphere, worked behind "Five and Ten" counters-now writes and graphologizes. You scribble. It's unconscious. Rounded lines...