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THINK of a ZEBRA!
ȚEUAN JONES sat at a
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low table in a playing field. Eighty feet away from him and hidden from his view by a high canvas screen, sat his cousin Glyn. Both were aged 14. They were un- dergoing a test of an un- usual kind.
A man sitting with Ieuan shuffled a pack of 25 cards. Five of them bore pictures of ele- pants, five showed giraffes, five showed lions, five zebras and five penguins.
He turned one face up in front of Ieuan. Ieuan stared
hard at the card. And on the other side of the
screen Glyn called "Z." (For Zebra). He was right; the card did show a zebra,
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Glyn receives
The odds against doing that by chance are fantastic.
Mystery of the two boy mind
which are used in mind-reading tests.
He started with the boys at either end of a living room table and a suitcase in between to act as a screen.
No trickery
The first results were only the sort which anyone might achieve by chance. But he kept on. The boys began to get better.
Dr Soal soon found that Glyn was much better as the 'guess- ing' partner in the team than Ieuan. He began to get some surprising results.
Dr Soal called in Mr H. T. Bowden, a school science master,
readers...by.
Henry Lewis
to help him. Mr Bowden that no signal could be passed
studied the Jones'
living room that way.
leuan transmits Doctors from the National In- stitute of Medical Research
hard, looking for some explana- New cards were tried. They watched them. They could find tion of the boys' feats. He had pictures of found none.
They separated the boys, put- ting leuan in one room, Glyn in another.
Still they got high marks. Dr Soal and Mr Bowden de- cided to call in expert investi gators. They took the boys to The story of the Jones boys' the headquarters in London of incredible feats began in 1955, the Society for Psychical Re- when Dr Samuel Soal, a 70 search, who investigate stories right year-old retired mathematics of ghosts and other
lecturer, holidaying in Snow- happenings.
Another card was turned face up before Ieuan. Glyn called "G". (For giraffe). Again he
was right.
And so it went, on through the pack.
Ieuan stared hard, at each cand shown him. And 80ft. away, unable to see his cousin, Glyn called the card. He call- ed all 25 correctly.
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soldier, a no explanation. policeman, a boy, a London scene and a racing car. Their
Someone suggested concealed backs had been treated
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A code?
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The boys were made to per- form their feats In bathing costumes,
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Just once they were caught Dr Soal and Mr Bowden were strange trying to use a code. The boys also searched for radios. Differ-
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Dr Soal was convinced that pathy and he got the boys to They put them in canvas their normal results were got by practise with a pack of cards chairs which could not creak so genuine mind reading.
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LA AST week I saw a contribution on this page that was not original. I referred to the Five Rules of the Club, and found that Rule No. 4 says that all contributions MUST be original "The Ten Commandments” by Mr Ricky Chan was originally a song by the same name issued in 1958” by T.C.I. in America. Later this song was recorded by singers like Paul Anka, Johnny Nash and. George Hamilton IV. In writing this letter, I know some people will hate me. I also understand that it will be hard for Mr Chan. But, believe me. I don't mean harm to others at all. I feel that every one should have honesty and be able to accept reality. After reading Mr Chan's other contribution on the same page, it gave me the impression that he has real talent. I hope this is the first and last time this will happen. With best wishes to the Club and all members-Louella Szető, Hongkong.
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and Jack Salvin, a magician card expert, who claims to know, all the mind-reading tricks, of stage acts like the Piddingtons, and to be able immediately to -recognise which code is being used, watched them. He could spot no code, no trickery!
Glyn' twice succeeded in get- ting all 28 cards fn: the pack right,
Twenty-six times he made "scores of 20 or more:
In all the boys were tested 15,318 times with results that have never been equalled nny- where in the world. In 1957 they appeared on TV, Glyn was asked to guess
cards shown to Ieuan. He got five out of the seven right. The odds against getting these right by ordinary guesswork are over 200 to one,
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How was it done? Glyn sáid: "The pictures just come into my head. All I have to do is say what comes into my mind's eye,”
Ieuan said: "I stare hard at the pictures, I can always tell when Glyn is getting them.'
How was it done? Dr Soal said: "We just do not know yet”
Amasing mind-reading texts have been achieved by Me and Mrs Fiddingtons me withTM Mrs Phidington in a diving
bell. But theirs were purely stage acts.
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