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Mr. Carrington brings into court the lifting of objects and human bodies without physical contact, telepathy, clairvoyance, premonitions, materialized phantasms which can snuff candles, transmission from the Other World of information to which the mediums could not possibly be privy, a mass of other phenomena.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ghosts, No Ghosts | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

Having finished this chapter, for the time being, Dr. Rhine decided to begin systematic investigation of the capacities of "mediums" (whom he calls parasychic sensitives), whose special field is supposed to be perception without help from the five senses. Accordingly he invited Eileen J,. Garrett, a medium well known in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blind Sight | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

"Although not definitely proved, the evidence seems to indicate that nicotine is at least one of the toxic factors [in cigaret smoking] and that carbon monoxide and the products of the cigaret papers may be eliminated as offending mediums." Other suspect factors: "Ammonia, pyridine and pyridine derivative, cyanides and sulpho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cigarets & Capillaries | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

In 1904, after giving birth to four very handsome daughters, Russia's German-born Tsarina produced an heir to the throne. The boy, a haemophile, was in constant danger of bleeding to death. Honest doctors did all they could for him. Finally the distracted Empress turned to spiritualists, mediums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rasputin & the Record | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

In Manhattan's garish Hotel Astor last week met the 37th annual convention of the General Assembly of Spiritualists, a U. S. Group which claims 5,000,000 members. (Representatives of 30,000,000- they say*-world Spiritualists meet in international congress every four years.) The avowed purpose of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Cheery Religion | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

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