Word: saudek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students of handwriting as well as the courts have accepted this long-standing assumption. Robert Saudek, London graphologist, set out to uncover exceptions.* In the March issue of Duke University's Character and Personality ("An International Quarterly for Psychodiagnostics and Allied Studies'') published this week, he reproduces twelve lines of bold, graceful, rapidly written script, with this comment: "It is out of the question that ten years ago any expert would have admitted the possibility . . . that parts of this specimen could have been written by different persons...
Investigator Saudek examined the writing of 234 pairs of identical twins, found that 5% wrote the same hand. Other pairs wrote enough alike to deceive a bank teller completely, to make experts hesitate. This degree of resemblance he also found in the handwriting of two young girls, no kin, both taught to write in the school of Edinburgh's Royal Hospital for the Deaf...
...recently published Anonymous Letters: A Study in Crime and Handwriting, Graphologist Saudek discusses the writing of twins, U. S. blackmail letters, the rôle of handwriting in France's famed Dreyfuss case...
Godfather of the new specialty is famed Professor William McDougall, 61, social psychologist, whom Harvard enticed from Oxford and Duke enticed from Harvard. Editor of Character & Personality is Dr. Robert Saudek, learned London interpreter of handwriting. Associate editor is Ernest Seeman, manager of Duke University Press and a persistent collaborator -with the late Aviation Pioneer Samuel Langley in experiments on flights of vultures; with Astronomer Harlow Shapley on light rays and energy of insects; with the late Thomas Alva Edison and Louise Guest Rice (Manhattan graphologist) in a system of character analysis...
...Haig '33, C.C. Johnson '32, E.B. Lee '34, D.W. Light '32, T.I. Moran '32, D.H. Popper '32, Lawrence Rasmussen Gr., W.D. Richmond Gr., H.A. Rigg Gr., A.L. Schade '34, H.B. Soloman '33, C.S. Spalding '33, W.P. Taub '32, R.W. Vilter '33, J.S.P. Walker '33, B.A. Young '32, R.W. Saudek '32, R.P. Stebbins '33, E.F. Wahlstrom Gr., C.W. Welsh...