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SIXTY YEARS OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH (618 pp.)-Joseph F. Rinn-Truth Seeker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Avocation in Ectopiffle | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Completely Furnished. In New Delhi, the Times of India ran a want ad from an apartment-seeker: "European business man seeks acquaintance of attractive widow or divorcee occupying own flat. Object matrimony. Please send full particulars of flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 11, 1950 | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...young man of whom Novelist John Dos Passes once wrote this passionate paragraph was John Dos Passes. Fast but not fast enough, far but not far enough to satisfy his rage to live, John Dos Passes has hurried about the world, a perennial seeker after the truth about his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Traveler | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...make up the bulk of Cast a Cold Eye (the remainder consists of New Yorkerized skeins of personal history), is a large bedful of just such dim petunias, wherein every muted "Ah!" suggests hoarse response to a throat specialist rather than the valid sound made by a Pascal truth-seeker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Say Ah-h-h! | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...Rocket Seeker. Project Cyclone has solved many problems before they ever came up in actuality. It advised the Navy, for instance, not to try to launch certain jet fighters from the deck of a pitching carrier. The computer proved that they were much too likely to go in the drink. It worked out the "hydrodynamic" behavior of unbuilt submarines. It predicted the speed at which the wings of new aircraft would begin to flutter dangerously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The House on 91st Street | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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