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Died. Alexander Kelberine, 36, concert pianist; of an overdose of sleeping tablets, while his wife's divorce suit was pending, after a concert characterized by a critic as showing "not lack of musicianship, so much as a psychic turmoil''; in Manhattan...
Headed by Dr. Francis Underhill, then Dean of Rochester, now Bishop of Bath & Wells, the committee took testimony from psychic researchers, both believers and skeptics. Some committeemen secretly attended séances. Nine months ago the committee had its report ready. To the great dismay not only of His Grace of Canterbury but of his colleague the Archbishop of York, the report was not unfavorable to Spiritualism. That, at least, was the conclusion Spiritualists drew when it became known last month that the report had been suppressed. Said Fred Hawken, secretary of the Marylebone Spiritualist Association: "I am confident that...
Said Editor Maurice Barbanell of Psychic News: "This suppression is just the usual trouble the Church of England has with anything unorthodox. It once opposed umbrellas on the basis of the Bible citation, He . . . sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. It is always 500 years behind the times, and this is the latest example." Said a representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury: "Further investigation is required...
...rabbi, in opposing the Christmas-Jew, may be opposing not him but a vast tide of psychic coercion, a veritable Zeitgeist, that flows through him and that renders all pleading and thundering . . . futile...
...Arbor, 80,000 Midwest rooters turned out for the 36th annual Michigan-Ohio State game, watched Tom Harmon & Co., with the aid of Old 83 ("a sort of psychic double cross" play originally concocted by Fielding Yost for his point-a-minute teams), outsmart Ohio State's pow erful machine that had been beaten only once this season (by Cornell). Despite last week's loss (21-to-14), Ohio State finished in front in the Big Ten race (with five Conference victories, one defeat), nosed out Iowa's Iron Men who, unable to do more than...