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...late President by his second marriage brought together. (His granddaughter, by his first marriage, Paulina Longworth, two weeks old, was perforce absent. So was Dirck*, two months old son of Kermit.) The chaperons of the party included the President's widow and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt. The entertainer was Houdini, the great ectoclast...
Again the medium implored the spirits. The slate was unwrapped. It bore two portraits? one of the President, the other of Uncle Quentin, killed in France. Under the President's picture was an inscription saying that if he should ever come back, it would be through the medium of Houdini. Below was signed in unmistakable hand: "Your devoted Theodore" and "In haste, your devoted Theodore and Quentin...
...Edward J. Kempf, psychiatrist, thought of "Buffalo Bill's monument in Wyoming by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney." Replied Houdini: "I get the picture of a man killing cattle-no, buffalos. I see him bringing meat to men building a railroad. He has long hair...
...Houdini's point was that Professor Sir Gilbert Murray had not done any- thing supernatural. "Telepathy is impossible," he said. He insisted that what little he had done was natural and scientific and refused to reveal his method...
...Harry Houdini, 51, has been interested in spiritualism since the official dawn of his manhood. Some time ago he made a compact with seven men, since dead, to send a message from the Gireat Beyond, hut he has not received so much as a sign...