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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAVEN, Conn. Nov. 20--We traveled here today to get an exclusive interview with Brian Dowling's roommate, Herman Quirm Jr...

Author: By Stroke Talbot, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Bri's Roommate | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

Cora du Bois, Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor of Anthropology, will retire this June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Du Bois Vacates Zemurray Chair | 11/20/1968 | See Source »

...George Daisley, in the summer of 1967. The questioner was the Right Rev. James A. Pike, the resigned Bishop of California and a staff member of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. With Daisley's help as a medium, he was communicating with his son James Jr., who had killed himself the year before. Young Jim's answer was a bit ambiguous: "I haven't heard anything personally about Jesus. Nobody around me seems to talk about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spiritualism: Search for a Dead Son | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...business affairs. "An account of my experiences with psychic phenomena," the book is a straight-forward chronicle of Pike's 21-year effort to communicate with his dead son. It also contains a father's painfully honest account of the sad events that led up to James Jr.'s suicide in February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spiritualism: Search for a Dead Son | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

Shortly after Jim's death, Pike returned to Cambridge, where he was suddenly afflicted by a series of inexplicable experiences. Clocks in his apartment kept stopping at 8:19-the hour when James Jr. had died in New York. Books and cards kept toppling over to an angle that matched that of the hands of a clock at 8:19. Eventually, Pike consulted an Anglican cleric who was interested in psychic phenomena; he suggested that Jim was trying to get in touch with Pike from the beyond and recommended the bishop to a "sensitive" named Ena Twigg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spiritualism: Search for a Dead Son | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

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