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...were right-so right that I thought you were more of an optimist than a prophet. I find I am the one who needs to have his long-range spectacles adjusted. But in this instance, Jim, I don't mind being wrong...
...Zurich was agog over the latest miracle man. Nightly at the Corso, the city's largest music hall, a 35-year-old Dutchman named Mirin Dajo stood stoically while an assistant seemed to push swords and spears through his chest. "I am no artist," Dajo said, "but a prophet. If you believe in God, your will can dominate your body. People wouldn't believe me if I started to talk. But after seeing my invulnerability they will." The act was a great success. So many people fainted that waiters demanded payment of checks before each performance...
...Wind Blows. The theory is known as "bioclimatics." Its father is Dr. William F. Petersen. famed Chicago pathologist and weather student (TIME. Aug. 2, 1943; March 25, 1946). But its most enthusiastic prophet is a rich, eccentric, globe-trotting Bostonian named Manfred Curry. Dr. Curry (a Munich M.D. is a sportsman of note, a yacht designer, and an authority on aerodynamics...
...vegetarian writer of Christian tracts ("I am ashamed to speak of my disgusting body," he said). But a rabbit had only to jump up under his feet to make him let out a hunter's bloodthirsty yell. One evening, out of sheer exuberance of animal spirits, the "elderly prophet" sprang onto his father-in-law's shoulders and perched there grinning. "He probably jumped down again at once," says Author Mann gravely, "but-it gives one an uncanny feeling...
...twelve-year-old was a wise prophet. In 40-odd years of concert touring, Artur Rubinstein has logged some 1½ million miles, and played for more people than any concert pianist in history. Last week in San Francisco, Rubinstein reached the end of his longest U.S. tour. At 58, he had made go appearances in seven months, and to capacity audiences everywhere. After a few weeks' rest in his Hollywood home, he will set out again on a 34-concert tour of South America. Then will come a tour of Western Europe-except Germany, where Rubinstein has refused...