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...produce any single phenomenon-spirit-writing on slates, voices from the beyond, table tippings, wax casts of ectoplasmic hands, etc., etc.-which could not be duplicated and explained by science or sleight of hand. Last week, to the standing offer of $10,000 made by the Universal Council for Psychic Research, the Scientific American added $5,000. Purpose: a renewed drive to expose a growing trade in ghostly fakery. As the world crisis gets worse, more & more fretful folk have fled to seance rooms, as they have also to astrologers' parlors (TIME...
...Give your name when you phone (she's not psychic...
...just arrived from Vienna. The catalogue advertised the sale of 812 18th-and 19th-Century books and papers on animal magnetism, hysteria, interpretation of dreams. The price for the lot was $500. The name of the owner was not divulged. He was, stated the catalogue, a "famous Viennese psychic explorer...
...Shatzky had a psychic flash. He ran to the Institute's Director Nolan Don Carpentier Lewis, exclaimed: "This can be the collection of only one man, and he is Sigmund Freud." If his hunch proved wrong, said Librarian Shatzky, he would foot the bill himself. Director Lewis got an appropriation...
...Really violent adolescence set in at 25. By 30 the physical survivors flickered into a relatively tranquil senescence. But they had been deeply seared by a blinding flash of revelation that life is at bottom brutal, and most of them clung to their cushioning cynicism years after the psychic shock had passed. They had to. Cynicism was the lost generation's only morale...