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...Lucal, 25, is studying to be a Jesuit priest; Harve Fischman, 21, has just graduated from UCLA where he wrote, directed and acted in the senior class play; Claude Brenner, 23, does aeronautical engineering research at M.I.T.; Ruthie Duskin, 18, already has one book to her credit (Chemi, the Magician), and took top honors at Northwestern's School of Journalism. Smylla Brind, 24. changed her name to Vanessa Brown and has appeared as a bright-looking ingenue in such movies as The Late George Apley and The Heiress...
...Ladies and gentlemen, as you see, I've got nothing up my sleeves. I'm not a magician, and I'm not here to deceive you. What you are about to see is the power of suggestion. Anyone can do it, because there's no mystery about the power of the human mind...
Professor Murdock began by noting that prostitution (as distinct from mere laxity in sexual behavior) does not exist in any primitive society even today, but that the medicine man is universal. And the medicine man in aboriginal cultures is always a magician who practices faith healing. Though he may belong to a tribe skilled in the use of drugs like quinine, he usually leaves the practice of physical medicine to old men or women who become specialists as herbalists or bonesetters. The true medicine man, says Murdock, confines his practice to curing the ills of the mind. And surprisingly often...
Died. Shri Hanwant Singh ("Funny Face") Bahadur, 28, Maharaja of Jodhpur, amateur magician, who was trying to perform a difficult political trick: persuading Indian voters to honor his past princely glory by electing him an independent member of both the national Parliament and his own Rajasthan state assembly (TIME, Jan. 14); in the crash of his private plane in the midst of his campaign; in Jawai Bund, Rajasthan...
Sleight of Hand. The princes, sparked by Hanwant Singh, seemed determined to make the election not only history's largest and longest, but its liveliest. Hanwant Singh, a polo player and amateur magician whose childhood dreams were realized a year ago when 600 London magicians asked him over to do some tricks for them, was proving himself a skilled political prestidigitator as well. Standing for both the national Parliament and the local Rajasthan state assembly, Hanwant Singh last week wrapped on his red-and-orange turban, sprayed himself generously with an oriental attar called Queen of the Night...