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...indicated by many planetary influences. . . . Do not speculate." This advice to investors appeared last July in American Astrology Magazine. Last week many bewildered McKesson & Robbins investors. whose holdings had just depreciated on the market by some $35,000,000, must have been ripe for conversion to some such occult science as astrology...
...known the methods of Dr. Carrel's surgery and Aviator Lindbergh's perfusion pump to a far larger body of scientists than it would be practical to instruct in the Rockefeller Institute's Stygian laboratories. Incidentally, the books should still a number of wild rumors of occult doings at the Institute which the penny press has spread through the lay world. Such rumors are typified by the recent announcement in English newspapers that Charles Lindbergh was preparing to have his heart removed and replaced by an indestructible one from grateful Dr. Carrel's stock. In point...
Science and the occult have revealed many strange coincidences, some so unusual that they are pregnant with mysticism and also savor of the supernatural. Such a case appears in TIME. Imagine my amazement when I read in your issue of Dec. 13 a letter identical with mine which you printed Dec. 28, 1936, conceived word for word by another just as it had come to my mind, but exactly one year later-truly an amazing coincidence...
...Foster Fathers Savo, Lahr, House and Auer combine their comic efforts in cementing the romance of their theatre-born ward (Joy Hodges) and Scion John King. Since this scheme merely involves hoodwinking Alice Brady it turns out to be not too difficult. Comics Auer and Savo dabble in the occult. House impersonates an English noblewoman, in his spare moments trains Fall Guy Lahr for a wrestling bout. Actress Brady is properly taken in. Best shots: Mummer Savo bestowing an imaginary wedding present with all the airy panoply of pantomime; Swami Auer winning Wrestler Lahr's bout for him with...
Half-believing friends' stories about the occult powers of the Indians, she became so excited by her first glimpse of the Southwest that she got off the train and hired a rattletrap automobile to speed her arrival. "Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty! ... I am Here," she announced to the "mythical" New Mexico landscape. Soon tired of Santa Fe, where the people were "too eager and cordial" ('"Why," she said, "should they be so glad to see me?"), she found in the village of Taos, 75 mi. from Santa Fe, what she was looking for. She rented...