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Died. Sir Oliver Lodge, 89, famed physicist and spiritualist; of pneumonia; in Wiltshire, England. He intended to communicate with fellow members of the English Society for Psychical Research after his death, and, for verification, left under seal copies of the messages he planned to send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 2, 1940 | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...Prodded by his ambitious mother, smart Chester is now a junior in a private prep school, active in dramatics, vice president of his class, goes to dances with lightskinned, upper-class girls, teaches Sunday school in the Methodist Church (higher in the social scale than his mother's Spiritualist Church), was recently voted "fifth most popular Negro in New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How It Feels To Be a Negro | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

Died. Lady Conan Doyle, 65, widow of Spiritualist-Writer Arthur Conan Doyle (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, etc.) with whom she claimed to have been in communication since his death in 1930; of heart failure after an operation; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 8, 1940 | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...Lily Dale Assembly, in New York, is the "Largest Spiritualist Camp in the World." There each summer spiritualism bursts into full bloom. Last week its 61st annual session drew believers and skeptics alike for contact with the spirit world. In parlor seances in many a medium's cottage along Lily Dale's wooded roads, the ether was crowded with voices. Reported Editor Juliette Ewing Pressing of The Psychic Observer: "The heavenly hosts are pleading with us these days to keep our balance and poise." Plainest talk came from the late Claude Augustus Swanson, Senator and Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Voices at Lily Dale | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

Kate Field proved to be a very desirable Communicator. She was simple, direct, and able, just as she was when where. In her first communication, at a seance of Mrs. Piper, she at once announced. "I am Kate Field." Nothing could have been more characteristic. The National Spiritualist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 3/12/1940 | See Source »

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