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Unimpeachable Source. In San Diego, a woman told police to look again; her missing nephew must be at the address she gave them. The Ouija board said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 25, 1946 | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...Fellig keeps a peeping eye on crowded, raucous, uncaring Manhattan. An untidy little man with a bulging stomach and moist brown eyes, he sleeps in his clothes, spends most of his nights cruising about, photographing the city. Newspaper readers see his pictures over the credit line Weegee (phonetic for Ouija-because he plays hunches on news and pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Weegee | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...great James Joyce has undeniably passed on (see p. 72) and there is no Ouija board in TIME'S editorial offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 10, 1941 | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

Died. Isaac Fuld, 74, manufacturer (with his late brother William) of the Ouija* Board; of bronchopneumonia; in Baltimore, Md. Before the peak of demand, Brother William enlarged their factories, claimed their product had told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Composer Rudolph Friml told a Manhattan newshawk of a "conversation" he had had with the late Victor Herbert via the Ouija board: "He says to me, 'Play five notes.'. . . I play. . . . It is Victor Herbert. It is his style exactly. Then Victor Herbert he says to me, 'Quite charming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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