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Saw King Edward VII Shake His Hand

Stranger than fiction is the story of Shane Leslie, 53-year-old author, whose infant mem- ories flashed before his eyes in film-like pictures after a serious accident. For days he lay in St. George's Hospital, London, his past life a blank.

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Bringing Up Father

WELL-MAGGIE-I GUESS I'M A FAILURE-HERE I AM-BACK TO WHERE I STARTED-BROKE--| DON'T CARE SO MUCH ABOUT MESELF-BUT I HATE TO SEE YOU

SO UNHAPPY-

OH-DEAR-DON'T TALK LIKE THAT- WE WILL BE HAPPY JUST THE SAME -

dents of his earliest life that he had entirely forgotten.

He saw himself as a three-year-old child being greeted by King Edward VII (then Prince of Wales) in the Paris home of his father, Sir John Leslie.. as a boy of two travelling in a train with Paderewski.

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A most Force is the starts his f now of the i purposes. T chines under!

Let Mr. Leslie tell you of hist "When I got to the end of the strange experience and its psycho-flashbacks I realised that this was ówn a 'film' about me, about my logical implications.

life. Then I got back my memory of the images

"The experience proves

that him. everything that happens to one is rapidly that stored away in some corner of the cord them- "For the next two weeks I lay in

It took Mr. St. George's Hospital with concus-subconscious mind, though entirely trievably.<

forgotten by the conscious mind. sion and other injuries.

"Last year I was crossing Park- lane, London, when I was knocked down by a motor-car," he said.

"I was unconscious for some "It is incredible, but I remember- time. When I recovered conscious-ed the dreams I had as a child.

ness I had lost my memory, but i did not realise it. For some time

I thought I was someone else, this

"Before the accident I had no

someone else being a well-known idea that 50 years ago King Edward Then that phase pass-VII. had shaken my hand at my

father's Paris house.

personage.

ed.

BOYHOOD AGAIN

STRANGE IMAGES

"You have heard how a drowning] "I had to write to my mother,

man sees all his past life coming Lady Leslie, for confirmation of the backward to him-from the present

down to his childhood?

"Something like that happened to

Royal visit.

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"She was also able to assure me

The Vauxh of 40 m.p.g

O me. Pictures flashed through my that my re-found recollection

a trial, over 1,0 brain. I watched the pictures as travelling with Paderewski in

based on actual the 10 hp. S though I was seeing a film of some-train was also

fact." body else's life.

"The 'film' showed swift flashes of a man, a youth, a small boy.

WE WUZ HAPPY | IN THEM OLD DAYS-AN' TH' GOIN' WASN'T SO GOOD AT

THAT

WHY-IT MAKES : ME HAPPY JUST TO THINK OF OUR LIVES TOGETHER-

And it ha Hydraulic chromesh ar Mr. Leslie, who is a cousin of features.. Mr. Winston Churchill, took notes

BESIDES-1 HAVE YOU-AN'. YOU'VE BEEN A GRAND HUSBAND AND WE GO ON ENJOYING LIFE-AND JUST THINK, HOW PROUD WE SHOULD BE OF OUR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER-

BY GOLLY-MAGGIE- DARLIN'- YOU'RE RIGHT SHES A GRAND LADY-

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