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...youth and "those classical descriptions of the storms of adolescence detailed by Shakespeare, Goethe, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Twain, Dickens, Joyce, Mann and the rest." These, he says, were all inward storms. "Lust was in their creations, also vast and devouring if nameless hungers, as well as cosmic yearnings, strange thirsts, occult sensations, murderous rages, vengeful fantasies and imaginings that catalogue all of sin and crime. But, unlike the sorry six from Brooklyn and New Zealand, in them these impulses were contained within the skin's envelope, merely felt and suffered in the private agony of a tormenting preadulthood...
...Washington bureaucracy no man feels the need of touching the ground more than W. (for Warren) Randolph Burgess (no kin to the poet, whose limerick he likes to quote). As the Treasury's top money expert, Burgess dabbles in such weighty and occult fiscal matters as rediscount rates and refundings, deals in sums that would frighten a lesser man. As manager of the biggest peacetime financing in history, he must raise $65 billion this calendar year. Last week Congress promoted Moneyman Burgess from Deputy Secretary to the new post of Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs...
Does It Really Work? As they headed for home last week after ten days of contemplation and discussion among the terraced vineyards of Provence, the delegates were agreed that they must find out, by cold scientific investigations, more about the occult arts. There was no doubt that a fertile field lay before them. Author Maurice Colinon had investigated faith healers in France for eight years-first as a newspaperman, then posing successively as a healer, front man for an Oriental fakir, and a mortally sick man. His most startling report: "unorthodox" healers are now 48,000 strong and outnumber...
...college student who plays the numbers should back 599, a figure with magical qualities bordering on the occult. This number is most potent during the summer months. Turning zealous vacation workers into loafers, it makes honest students throw over well-paying jobs a good month before school would make them quit. The number is, of course, the sum a student may carn before he is no longer a deductable item on his guardian's income tax but becomes, himself, another prop to the national debt...
...Laboratory, faced newsmen in his campus office last week and told them the story of the homing cat. A family moving 1.500 miles from California to Oklahoma had left behind its pet cat, which had never been out of its home state. Many long months later, guided by some occult power, the cat had turned up at the family's new home.' How could he be sure that this was the same cat? Easy: the animal had a deformed hip. said Dr. Rhine, and he had checked relatives and friends of the family at both ends...