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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 30, 1977 | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

...persons from the audience, and then show each person one picture which he described alternately as the funniest or saddest ever seen. As you can imagine, one person would be laughing uncontrollably while the other would stand aghast, on the verge of tears. "That always brought the house down," Sampson admits...

Author: By Marc H. Meyer, | Title: Hypnotism Without Watches | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

...hear that some of the fellows at Harvard have an interest in a school called Pine Manor," Sampson jested. Several years ago, in a rare performance, Sampson was contracted to put on a show for their entertainment. He hypnotized three women from the audience, and told two that they were from a different planet and were unable to understand or speak English. He told the third that she was very special because she could speak English, and understand what the other two girls were saying to each other in their "moon gibberish." The first two gossiped with their gibberish, while...

Author: By Marc H. Meyer, | Title: Hypnotism Without Watches | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

...Well, everything went just fine for awhile," Sampson sighed. "We had these two girls chatting in moon gibberish and seeming quite interested in what each had to say, and the third was nodding her head, and telling the rest of us about what her friends were saying. Something about boys as I remember it. The audience was getting a good laugh. But then suddenly, I noticed that the girls had stopped talking and were looking fearfully down at their friends in the audience, and I guess what they saw were earth creatures, not friends. So, off ran these two hypnotized...

Author: By Marc H. Meyer, | Title: Hypnotism Without Watches | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

...many would know how to handle these two Manor moon women. "What could I do?" Sampson asked. "I had to run after them, drag them down, and bring them out of it. And afterwards, they didn't have the slightest notion of what they had been doing. Great place, that Manor...

Author: By Marc H. Meyer, | Title: Hypnotism Without Watches | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

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