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Strapped to an improvised operating table lay Andre di Bernardi, a spiritualist suffering from an inflamed appendix. While a phonograph played Gounod's Ave Maria, mediums "materialized" Dr. Luiz Gomes do Amaral, who died 19 years ago. The patient waited, fully conscious and quivering. He felt clammy hands on his body, a tingling scratch on his abdomen. A soft voice reassured him that he would feel no pain. Water splashed in a pail by his side as if an invisible surgeon were washing invisible hands...
...Gamble, the blind, tyrannical spiritualist, was listening to her hired companion, husky-voiced, Madonna-faced Veronica Thwale, absently read aloud from the works of Sir Oliver Lodge. Mrs. Thwale's mind was mainly absorbed in mulling over her favorite dream-in which her father, a Church of England canon, was crucified by a troop of Boy Scouts...
Ghost Writer. In Brazil, relatives of the late Humberto de Campos said they intended to sue the Brazilian Spiritualist Federation for royalties on books purportedly written psychographically by the dead Humberto...
Denis Percy Stewart Conan Doyle, brother of Adrian, announced in Los Angeles that he would soon return to England, stand for election to Parliament. A spiritualist like his father, Denis also made his periodical report that he.was still chatting with Sir Arthur from time to time...
...request, Stuffy retired last July to the quiet of his widower's home in Wimbledon to follow the war through the newspapers. At 61 he is still a trim, erect figure, more than ever engrossed in the spiritualist studies which have long interested him. In London's Sunday Pictorial Sir Hugh was quoted last week: "I am sure that our war dead live on. ... I have read messages from them...