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...Many headaches have psychic causes. One woman had two operations to relieve a severe pain on the left side of the head. No relief. When doctors questioned her closely, they found the headaches started when her husband had slapped her on the left side of the face...
Died. Mina Stinson Crandon, 53, better known as "Margery" the medium whose claims of psychic communication with the dead raised serious controversy from 1924 to 1935; in Boston. Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed in her; Harry Houdini offered $5,000 to charity if she produced any "manifestations" which he could not duplicate. Charity never got the money. Before Houdini died in 1926 he said he would communicate with the living after his death if he could, and Magician Joseph M. Dunninger awaited a "message" on every anniversary of his death. "Margery" died the day after the 15th...
...this strange Frenchman, whose psychic moods, personal habits, political methods and achievements strangely resembled Adolf Hitler's, Novelist Aldous Huxley this week published the first biography to be written in English. Father Joseph is an almost perfect subject for Aldous Huxley. The amoral novelist (Antic Hay, Point Counter Point) has become increasingly preoccupied with moral dilemmas (Eyeless in Gaza, Ends & Means) and increasingly a mystic...
...Theo finds infidelities among them, and at length, bored, crib-ridden, anesthetic towards her husband and afraid of losing her youth, she has an affair herself. When Tom, a simple, active man, finds out, it drives him half out of his wits, her into penitence, both into a cruel psychic deadlock whose detailing is the best thing in the book. Ultimately they stand ready for "the splendid, striving, accomplishing years of middle age," beside which "the years of youth had become a thin, pathetic dream...
...referring to Mr. Joseph Dunninger, conjurer and self-styled expert on psychic investigation, it is stated that "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Edison and Harry Houdini left secret messages (with him) before their deaths to test the possibility of communication with a world of spirits." Now I cannot speak for Mr. Edison or Mr. Houdini, but I do know for an absolute fact that so far as my father is concerned there is not one word of truth in this statement...