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Page Twelve

THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE

Sunday, March Z, 1958

Page Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE Sunday, March 2, 19S8

MARTY
Magnetic Eyes and Corned Beef Drew Patrons
To Local Delicatessen

By RONALD KOTULAK convince the members but "when cme when he was practicing on
Daily Stagf Writer I stood on her and she didn't bend, his sister before he mastered the
STARING into his magnetic eyes, their mouths fell to the floor." art of hypnotism.
a customer at Marty Horowitz's At this point he becomes cau- Three weeks of practice pro-
delicatessen might find himself tious and warns that anyone prac- duced no results with her. Finally
buying a dozen corned beef sand- tiring hypnosis should be con- one day, after talking confidently
cerned about the health of his to her, he asked her to clasp her
wiches instead of the one he came subject. "I always ask my subjects fingers together and suggested that
in for when Marty surreptitiously if they have had an operation she couldn't pull them apart. She
exercises his hypnotic power of within the last six months." struggled desperately to free hef
suggestion. For instance, "there is a possi- hands but was unable to. Unpre-
"But don't be afraid to come in," bility of strain or rupture" when pared for this turn of events, he
he laughs, "only my friends get fat a subject, holding a chair, is told worked for half an hour to calm
that way," it is an extremely heavy object. his sister and unwind her clenched
Familiar with the University The person reacts as if he were fingers.
student's death-like concern with supporting a truck. The second time occurred the
exams, Marty once hypnotized his In a rigid state, such as that of day after he performed at a party,
sister's girl friend the day before the girl lying across the chairs, when a female subject phoned his'
"the body shrinks an inch to an r . home and said she had a severe
a test and tod her she would re-
member all the course material. inch and a half because of the ' :headache. She exclaimed she was.
She got 100 per cent on the contracted muscles." going to see a doctor. "All that
exam and the teacher, suspecting - day," he reflected, "I wonderedif
unfair play, questioned her about A THRIFTY byproduct of hyp- I should pick up a copy of the train'
it. The girl, excited about the nosis is the trick of giving a schedule."
outcome, blurted out that she was subject a glass of water and, after
hypnotized. Thereupon the in- he has drunk it, telling him it was EVERYTHING turned out al1
s whiskey. "You have to be careful right, however. The doctor ex-
didn'tor lunke her because he of the person you pick for this HYPNOTISM-Age regression and mental telepathy practiced on plained to the woman that her
because some people get angry subjects by Marty Horowitz. headache was due to the previous
Unbelievers frequently raise when they're drunk and others night's excitement.
doubting voices, but aftr a per- can't stand to drink and might get ing Attorney's wife and after tak- IN ONE CASE, age regression The convincing dark-haired talk-
formance the greatest skeptics are sick." ing her back to the age of two produced a strartling effect. He er leaned over the counter of his
the most avid believers. Once he Age regression is one of the years, asked what her name was. put a 3e-year-old, 160-lb. woman store on South university and
performed at a lodge where "every- hypnotist's most exciting achieve- Although her real name was Ruth, into a trance and took her back whispered, "I can hypnotize some
ments. A famous example of re- she answered Shirley. to the age of one. Then he told her people withi4 30 seconds to a min-
gression is the recent Bridie Mur- People in age regression come up she was hungry and she began to ute if they cooperate."
AT'ER hypnotizing a 90-lb. girl, phy incident. "You can believe it with different names, personalities, wail "tears like saucers" pouring Using only suggestion to hypno-
he stretched her across two if you want," he shrugs. and places, he added, but he has from her eyes. He gave her his tize, he said women are more easily
chairs with only her head and feet At a performance in Detroit he never followed through with these hand and told her it was a bottle, put into a trance but men experi-
supporting her. The feat still didn't mesmerized an Assistant Prosecut- subjects off stage, whereupon she eagerly sucked his tne a deeper state. "It scares me
thumb and "felt much better." why I'm able to do it. I under-
. . , P 0 erhaps the most provocative stand how it happens, but not
S aspect of hypnotism Is the claim why."
of mental -telepathy or thought Men in the field of medicine,
transfer. In performing this task have experimented with hypnotism-
the subject is mesmerized, then periodically, but Marty explained
turned away from the hypnotist. he would hesitate to use it, even
An object is hiden somewhere so under a doctor's supervision, be-
that the hypnotized person could cause "it isn't a permanent cure."
not possibly know its location; However, his sister has been going
then he is wakened. to a dentist, under the post-hyp-
Without a word being spoken or notic suggestion that she would
9 oz. o st~eany type of physical contact, the feel no pain, for the past two'
subject, by concentrating, falters years.
toward the concealed object. The
performance is particularly trying, AT THE END of every perform-
he said. because of the concentra- ance he clears his subjects of
ted mental effort made by both any lingering hypnotic suggestion.
parties. If the subject wasn't cleared, for
Usually a person under hypnosis instance, after being told to shout
will not do anything which is "Yea for Marty" every time he
against his personal moral code or pulled out a handkerchief, he
which could harm him. But by would yell whenever a hanky was
employing subterfuge, "they will produced.
do anything " Marty related how the psychol-
ogy professor who taught him self-
F A SUBJECT is handed a gun, hypnosis in a course tried to prove
for example, and told it is an he had hypnotized himself by
orange which he must point at touching a lit cigarette to the palm
someone and squeeze, he will. Or, of his hand and feeling nothing,
led to the top of a building and "When I thought I had hypno--
informed that there are steps de- tized myself one time, I tried the
scending from the side of the cigarette test, but I burnt my
structure, chances are a subject hand."
would believe you and step down. With this thought in mind hey
Twice during his early career cautioned that hypnotism can be
Marty experienced having "the hell dangerous and "shouldn't be used
scared out of me." The first time by anyone unless he's an expert."

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