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...Harvie-Watt off a New Zealand-bound liner, were flying him back from Gibraltar. Outside the House of Commons, hundreds watched the arrival of the invalids. Labor's Sir Stafford Cripps and Hugh Dalton were brought back from rest cures, R. W. G. Mackay from a hospital. Thomas Hubbard, awaiting an operation, turned up, pale and haggard, with two attending doctors. J. P. W. Mallalieu, who had been suffering from shingles, afterwards wrote: "Medical science is wonderful. First it was deep X rays. Then it was penicillin. Now it's divisions in the House of Commons." The sound...
...several months the lists of bestselling books have offered multiple proof of man's incurable yearning for marvels. Near the top of the "nonfiction" section stood Immanuel Velikovsky's scientifically preposterous Worlds in Collision (astronomy based on hashed-up mythology). Close below was L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics (psychiatric home-treatment practiced as a sort of parlor game...
...psychologists and fewer psychiatrists could see any possible good in dianetics, the bestselling so-called "science of mind" concocted by science-fiction Writer L. Ron Hubbard (TIME, July 24). But no group, it seemed, wanted to be the first to denounce it publicly. Last week, the American Psychological Association decided that somebody had to do something...
Meanwhile, one of the most vociferous converts to dianetics, Williams College's cause-chasing Professor Frederick L. Schuman, protested in a letter to the New Republic against an unfavorable review of Founder Hubbard's book, Dianetics. Snorted the editors in a one-paragraph reply: "While Dr. Schuman is a distinguished authority on political science, we do not feel that on issues involving psychiatry he is entitled to any more respect than any other layman. His suggestion that no one should write about dianetics without having experienced it seems to us like saying that...
Between the barren spot of U.S. land called Little Diomede and the Russian island called Big Diomede lies 2% miles of Bering Strait and the International Dateline. From big, weather-worn Father Bernard R. Hubbard, the 61-year-old "Glacier Priest" whose Alaskan explorations are known around the world, came a postcard last week to Alaska Authoress Barrett (Spawn of the North) Willoughby. From his mission on Little Diomede (pop. 130), Father Hubbard wrote...