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...Dixon might have been specially trained for this job. He made an all-important sea anchor out of a life jacket, paddles out of his own shoes. He treated Gene's finger expertly when a shark ripped it from end to end. A superstitious man and an "ardent" spiritualist, Dixon was ready to participate in Gene's daily prayers "because it worked a couple of times . . . and later because it gave us something regular to do." When Tony, who had heard only Polish religious services, begged to hear Bible stories in English, Dixon rationed them, giving...
...late Henry Church, a Chagrin Falls, Ohio blacksmith, musician and spiritualist preacher, who not only painted, but carved himself a colossal sandstone lion for a tombstone and recorded his own funeral sermon on a gramophone cylinder...
...years cash prizes have awaited the spiritualist medium who could produce any single phenomenon-spirit-writing on slates, voices from the beyond, table tippings, wax casts of ectoplasmic hands, etc., etc.-which could not be duplicated and explained by science or sleight of hand. Last week, to the standing offer of $10,000 made by the Universal Council for Psychic Research, the Scientific American added $5,000. Purpose: a renewed drive to expose a growing trade in ghostly fakery. As the world crisis gets worse, more & more fretful folk have fled to seance rooms, as they have also to astrologers...
...votes." Joseph W. Martin Jr.: "Willkie and McNary will receive a minimum of 324 electoral votes ... the Republicans will capture at least 60 additional seats in the House. . . ." Pathfinder Poll (owner: Emil Hurja): "Willkie victory with 353 electoral votes ... he may get as many as 385. . . ." Joseph Dunninger (spiritualist investigator) : "Thomas Jefferson thinks Roosevelt is as good as in. McKinley says it's Willkie." Arthur Sears Henning (Chicago Tribune): "For Willkie, 280; for Roosevelt, 182; doubtful, 69." Wall Poll: "Roosevelt will win the popular vote, but . . . Willkie may win a majority in the electoral college." Senator George W. Norris...
...culture, if no great originality. Said Moon Trail: "Learning is living. . . . Every soul is a brick in the mosaic of the universe. If one were lost the universe would fall." In pursuit of the psychic chums of Moon Trail, and determined to make more of the loquacious defunct talk, Spiritualist Pressing last September corralled another batch of earnest mediums, went to the Buffalo, N. Y. offices of Transtudio Corp., a commercial radio-transcription studio. A medium soon got through to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. While sympathetic listeners urged him on by exclaiming "Isn't he a dear, the sweet...