Milford chronicle., 1959-02-27
Milford High School
Library News

Wake Up and Read . At
Least One Book a Week" For
a better read. better informed
America, it is imperative that W.
all brush up on our readine9
"Spies over Asia" is the intrigu
ing title of another book BY Kurt
Singer and this Is a collection o.
tales each of which has the rar'
merit OF being more fantastic than
fiction. Asia, wnere the traditior
of espionage is as old as the hills,
Is a fascinating background for the
characters so varied as Mad.TnC
Fragrance u, lovely Chinese girl
the young British police agent who
fought the Malayan terrorists;
Banda Macleod, daughter of Mata
Hari, following tragically in he.
mothers footsteps: and the Grand
Mufti and members of the Moslem
Brotherhood These are but few
OF the characters inhabiting the
pages of this book by a master
teller of spy stories.
MY Strangest Case" is a collec-
tion of stories by police chiefs
from all over the world-each man
recounting the strangest case of his
career. The stories vary from the
account Of the suave, sophisticated
cat burglar of Honolulu to the
case of the Australian Bluebeard
whose nine wives became his vic.
Tins, and the telepathic police aid
in Vancouver who could read the
minds Of his criminals. Ex-Chief
Superintendent Frederick Cherrill
of Scotland Yard and ]. Edgar
Hoover are two of the distinguish
ed contributors to this unusual
nonfiction anthology. Every story
is authentic In its source and pre-
sentation, and nowhere has exag-
geration or pretense been allowed
to take over from truth. This book
was edited by Kurt Singer. THE
Story of a Hypnotist" by Franz J.
Polgar with Kurt Singer is the
life-story OF THE Amazing Pol
gar, as he Is called by thousands
of audiences from coast to coast.
He has been employed by college
football team to give hypnotic re-
Taxation. Once girl whom he had
hypnotized on tour was transfxed
on a New York street simply by
looking at a poster OF his face
and he was summoned to release
her from her trance. He has pro-
digious Photographic memory and
this book tells us of some of his
amusing memory feats. To cap his
strange powers, he has telepathic
gift. Very often he tells an audi
ence: Hide my check. II / can't
find 1t through a mental guide, you
keep it. And he always wins this
bet
Born in Hungary, Polgar attract
ed the notice OF Ferenczi, the psy-
choanalyst, who wrote Freud about
the young hypnotist. Freud invited
Polgar to Vienna and for a while
he attended Freud's classes. But
the man he learned most from, was
Professor Nemeti in Budapest. La
ter Polgar's path crossed that of
Hanussen who was afterwards mo-
torious as Hitler's astrologer, and
Polgar gives an interesting account
OF Hanussen's tricks. Coming to
America, Polgar had to start at the
bottom as waiter where he
read" customers minds For small
fees he gave hypnotic shows but
he finally got a big start at San
Francisco and from then on he
has been headliner III entertain
ment In an important chapter sse
tells about the persuasion method
he uses in hypnotizing people, 1ss 1Is
also discusses the advances hyp-
notism has made in therapy and
other scientific advances.
Next week we will review some
of the books in our collection re-
lating TO the Soviet Union and
more particularly to the much dis
cussed book by Boris Pasternak,
Doctor Zhivago".