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...expose Adventist anomalies, Eternity Editor Donald Grey Barnhouse, one of the top leaders of U.S. Fundamentalism, two years ago assigned Staff Writer Walter R. Martin to study the sect. Martin, a "research polemicist," who has already excoriated the Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian Scientists from a Funda mentalist point of view, set to work and found to his astonishment that he brought not a sword but peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peace with the Adventists | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...Dunninger Show (Sat. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The mystifying mentalist mystifies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

Last month, burly, gimlet-eyed Joseph Dunninger, who describes himself as a "mentalist," titillated his TV audience by reading what was in the mind of Rhode Island's Congressman Aime Forand, who was standing on the steps of the Capitol, 225 miles away. (Forand was thinking: "American citizenship is priceless.") Last week, Dunninger read the mind of a Trans-ocean Air Lines pilot circling 5,000 feet above the Radio City studio. (His thought was a commercial plug for the company.) These feats, Dunninger solemnly avers, were accomplished for the entertainment of TV audiences without the use of "supernatural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Important 95% | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Paramount), a smooth-surfaced, creaky-jointed melodrama, stars Edward G. Robinson as a vaudeville "mentalist" who finds, to his embarrassment, that his clairvoyant gift is genuine. He feels so helplessly responsible for the catastrophes he foresees that he cannot bear to cash in on his remarkable powers. He disappears into the depths of Los Angeles, leaving his fiancee (Virginia Bruce) to marry his partner (Jerome Cowan). Just as he could predict, Virginia dies in childbirth and Jerome makes money hand over fist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...WASHINGTON, WMAL-TV celebrated the lifting of an FCC ban by presenting "Mentalist" Robert L. Friend. In short order, he reduced three giggling university coeds to a trance-like state (a fourth coed continued to giggle and was excused). Hypnotist Friend, who was careful not to beam his big, brown eyes at the television audience,* will not do another hypnotic show, he says, until televiewers "clamor and clamor and clamor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Busy Air, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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