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MELINDA by Gaia Servadio. 375 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
Author Gaia Servadio is the beautiful Italian-born wife of William Mostyn-Owen, an art expert at Christie's, the London auction house. She has modeled, acted in experimental films, exhibited her paintings in Milan and Rome, and covered last year's Arab-Israeli war for the Daily Telegraph...
Some healers, at least, may have unusual powers, suggested Italy's Professor Emilio Servadio. Patients treated by the Mago di Napoli, who is raking in $4,000 a week in Rome (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953), always spoke of feeling a current of air when the healer raised his hands. So Servadio lured the Mago into a laboratory with concealed anemometers. He found to his amazement that when the Mago raised his hands, he displaced a column of air four feet across...
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