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Elisha Kane also found time for love. He had a secret affair with Maggie Fox, a celebrated spiritualist who produced spirit noises by cracking her toes. His letters to her were printed in Love Life of Dr. Kane, now a collector's item...
Nowhere in the world is Spiritualism so respectable as in England. There it rates as a real religion, has attracted some great names (Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). Although England's 2,500 Spiritualist societies do not keep membership rolls, at least 250,000 believers go to Sunday-night meetings and probably 1,000,000 altogether call themselves Spiritualists. The Confraternity of Clergy, Ministers and Spiritualists claims that 100 Christian divines belong to the cult. Alarmed by this trend, the Archbishop of Canterbury more than four years ago appointed a committee to investigate Spiritualism...
...skeptics. Some committeemen secretly attended séances. Nine months ago the committee had its report ready. To the great dismay not only of His Grace of Canterbury but of his colleague the Archbishop of York, the report was not unfavorable to Spiritualism. That, at least, was the conclusion Spiritualists drew when it became known last month that the report had been suppressed. Said Fred Hawken, secretary of the Marylebone Spiritualist Association: "I am confident that the report would have appeared if it had been adverse...
...outbreak of World War II was a considerable embarrassment to British spiritualists. Before September 1, British spiritualist publications and practitioners were almost unanimous in proclaiming that their country would have ten or more years of peace. Last week, admitting that their faith was undergoing a dark hour, spiritualist apologists offered two explanations for the discrepancy between fact and forecast...
Last week the Federal Trade Commission announced it had issued a cease & desist order against Great Britain Spiritualist Church and its officers. (Among them: the widow of Mr. Colbert who died two years ago.) The FTC itemized its findings: "Grendeline Holy Oil is not a product of the Sibber tribes of India, and will not assure the users thereof health, wealth, happiness and success. . . . Mintolean Mojou Lucky Oil is not a product of African tribes or of foreign countries, and will not produce luck or have any effect on dice soaked in it. ... Dr. Colbert's House Dressing Balls...