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When New Jersey Republican Raymond H. Bateman turned 50 last week, a political numerologist would have chuckled at the irony. The challenger's once commanding lead in the polls had shrunk to only a 50% chance of unseating the Democratic incumbent, Brendan Byrne...
Skipped Sleep. It was a numerologist who made the somewhat mysterious suggestion that "Klara Barlow" would suit her better professionally than her own name, Alma Williams. She made her New York recital debut in 1954. Critics were enthusiastic, but her career did not develop. By 1961, twice divorced and with a nine-year-old daughter to support, she headed for Europe. In minor German opera houses she at last found regular work. And loneliness. "The towns are gray, and Germans stick to themselves," she says. "You have only your colleagues and new roles...
...numerologist were to pick a lucky number for Jack Nicklaus, it would have to be a nice round figure. Like 100,000. Big Jack is the only golfer in history to win an average of more than $100,000 a year throughout his pro career. And last week he became the only golfer ever to win $100,000 in the space of twelve days...
...point of fanaticism, in fact, that is what I am like, and once again, kill me or take me as I am, for I shall not change." Rejection of God seems to have exhausted his powers of skepticism. In his lonely circular cell he became a devout numerologist, and solemnly counted the words or lines in letters he received as a basis for abstruse and totally nutty calculations that would provide, he believed, the exact date of his release. His number never came up. He died of a pulmonary congestion in the asylum at Charenton...
...Woodward, tried to prove his case through numerology. Assuming that A equals one and B equals two, etc., he added BACON up to 33, found it "very significant" that in one passage of Part I of Henry IV in the First Folio, the name Francis appears 33 times. Another numerologist noted that SHAKESPEAR has four vowels and six consonants. He then turned to the 46th Psalm, declared that the 46th word from the beginning was SHAKE and the 46th from the end was SPEAR. His conclusion, according to the Friedmans: "Since Shakespeare wrote the Psalms, and Shakespeare...