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...wonders that TIME'S Religion editor felt that the book Priestess of the Occult rated 2½columns of its valuable space [TIME, Nov. 11]. Gertrude Marvin Williams' book so obviously is written from a biased point of view that it will be surprising to many of her readers to discover that men of such proven intellectual caliber as Thomas Edison, Sir William Crookes, and Alfred Russell Wallace were members of The Theosophical Society. ... If we are not to class them as dupes, then their association with Madame Blavatsky would argue that the Williams portrait...
Those elected from Senior standing include: Robert D. Cross '45, of Eliot House and East Northfield; Marvin A. Finklestein '48, of Cambridge; Jerome W. Fischbein '48, of Lowell House and East Orange, N. J.; Howard S. Hibbett, Jr. '44, of the Hotel Brunswick and Woodside, Long Island; Phillippe Meyer '46, of Cambridge; and Caldwell Titcomb '47, of Adams House and Augusta...
...something that brought savants and social leaders to her feet and keeps her memory hallowed by the 50,000-odd Theosophists scattered around the world. What she had and how she used it is expertly told in a new biography, Priestess of the Occult, by ex-journalist Gertrude Marvin Williams (Knopf; $3.50). Loyal Theosophists will wince at this well-documented story of the Society's origins...
...America's five million Jews the only opportunity of creating a "vivid, joy-giving Jewish culture" outside of Palestine, Marvin Lowenthal, author and sometime chairman of radio's "Invitation to Learning," told members of the Harvard-Radcliffe chapter of Hillel Foundation at Phillips Brooks House last-night...
...Marvin S. Traub '46, 21, New York City, Adams House, Government, Crimson business manager, Council Revision Committee, House baseball, P. B. H., '46 Senior Album...