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...Even at 4, he felt a certain je ne sais quoi about the checkered board. He was 7 when he had his first official win, and now, with years of two-hours-a-day practice behind him, he has become the youngest chess grandmaster ever, beating Canadian grandmaster Kevin Spraggett, 42, at a tournament in France. He can't best world champion Garry Kasparov yet, but he warns, "I'm getting closer." Says his trainer, Iosif Dorfman: "He does much better than Kasparov at the same...
Arthur Ford died in 1971 at the age of 73. Now Allen Spraggett, the Canadian journalist who brought Pike and Ford together for the TV séance, has published his own account of the incident. In Arthur Ford: The Man Who Talked with the Dead (New American Library; $7.95), a biography written with William V. Rauscher, a close friend of Ford's and his literary legatee, Spraggett admits that he is a believer in Ford's psychic powers but says that Ford had the canny habit of cramming for many of his séances...
Gifted. In Pike's case, he came prepared with a headful of research about the bishop's past: Although Pike clearly believed that he was communicating with his son, Spraggett points out that the most elementary investigation into the bishop's background could have given Ford all the information he needed to fake the "contact"-facts about the Pike family's Slavic origins or James Jr.'s precarious mental, health. During the séance, Ford purportedly made contact with a former colleague of Pike's, the Rev. Louis W. Pitt. Ford had said...
...Spraggett, on the other hand, insists that there are a few references to people or events in the séance for which he could find no research in Ford's papers. The author concludes: "Personally, I think the evidence supports the hypothesis that Arthur Ford was a genuinely gifted psychic who, for various reasons, scrutable and inscrutable, fell back on trickery when he felt...
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