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...several other speakers who had proposals to make rather than criticisms. Montreal's famed Stressor Hans Selye (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950) flew in to declare his faith that physiological change is related to emotional disturbance. Recent research shows that three classes of hormones can create such varied "psychic" disorders as pathological confusion or excitement, chronic fatigue (neurasthenia), deep depression, psychoses or neuroses during pregnancy, convulsive seizures, paralytic "spells," and even degenerative conditions of the brain and central nervous system...
...cases the physical had come first, the researchers found, and had been aggravated by the mental. But in almost as many cases psychic disturbances had led to behavior that produced physical injury, e.g., the passive-aggressive man who wrecked his car and suffered a fractured skull. If this had been his first accident, it might have been chance, but it was his fifth major accident by the age of 22. In at least six cases there was a nervous disorder producing all the signs of bodily illness-except that when the surgeons checked, they could find nothing wrong to operate...
...most haunted house in England." Within a year, thanks to Rector Smith himself and an enthusiastic ghost hunter named Harry Price, its infamy had spread throughout the nation. Harry Price, an affable hobbyist of independent means, was far and away Britain's best-known investigator of psychic phenomena. His books on the subject were legion and readable, and his spectacular exposures of fake spiritualists were invariably good for pages of newspaper copy...
...close fellowship of British ghost hunters, whose passionate efforts to expose psychic hoaxes are coupled with an ardent desire to believe in the real thing, there was no more joy over the exposure of Harry Price than there was among anthropologists over the fall of the Piltdown man (TIME, Nov. 30, 1953). "Our criticisms have given us no satisfaction," wrote Price's accusers. Harry Price himself, having died in 1948, was beyond making any rebuttal, unless by further spiritual manifestation. The whole business, mourned the Glasgow Herald, "is a melancholy proof of human frailty...
...some cases, the saving in taxes almost equals the cost of philanthropy. A foundation can also be used, as was the Ford Foundation, to help a family retain control of a company, or to promote a pet idea, e.g., the Odlum-Cochran Foundation spends some of its money on psychic research, a hobby of Financier Floyd Odium's wife. From a businessman's point of view, probably the most important byproduct of a foundation is the good will created for a company...