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The Red and Black. Tuesday. May 1. 1979
Bogart fortune teller says she gets messages from hands
B)^PATRICK POWERS
The sign stands besitfp the road, attracting the glances of the
curious with its large ted hand and the words. "Sister Marie—
Palmist.*
Many a passing motdtist has probably wondered at the obscure
mysteries the sign suggests.
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visit to Sister Marie. 4b ask a few questions and to have my
fortune told $>
The palmist accepts callers at her house, a spacious, white-
columned. red-brick dwelling located just west of Bogart on
route 78 Before ringing the doorbell. I noted a number of small
white statues, one headless, sprinkled throughout the lawn Two
lat* model Cadillacs iat parked in the driveway, a tribute
perhaps to the popularity of Sister Mane's profession.
I was ushered inside by Sister Marie and directed to a small,
thickly furnished chamber that serves as her palm reading room
The visitor feels vaguely intimidated in the room, with its plush
furnishings, and its cluster of candles and religious bric-a-brac
that impart some idealized aura of mystical opulence
Sister Marie Marks, who claims Cherokee ancestry, is an
attractive, dark-featured woman with a brusque, businesslike
manner and a decided reticence in describing, with much detail,
the nature of her work In a strongly accented voice she said that
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she has been reading palms for about 20 years, since she was a
child she described the ability to read palms as a special gift
passed down from generation to generation, granted almost
exclusively to female family members “It is very rare for A
man fo be gifted," she remarked.
Sister Marie does not concentrate on analyzing the individual
lines in the palm, like many readers, but receives certain
messages from the hand which she interprets through her “gift."
Sealed across from Sister Marie, a large white Bible lying open
on a shelf beside me, she instructed me to "place ten dollars in
the Bible and make two very slrong wishes Keep one of the
wishes to yourself and tell the other to me.”
This done. I extended my right palm, which she examined for a
few moments and then, proceeded to rattle off in rapid order a
stream of general observations, personal insights, and
predictions for the future Her intonations went on for about five
minutes, and the reading came to a close
The palmist warned me before I left not to reveal to anyone
anything she had told me during the session "If you tell, the
predictions will not come true," she said, with the implication it
would also disturb some vague mystical forces.
However, ai the risk of having a pentangle appear on my hand,
I will in clear conscience disclose the gist of her psychic
prophecies According to Sister Marie, the future looks pretty
good, with financial success, romantic triumphs, and a long,
probably overseas, journey (“I see water," she exclaimed ) in
store for me
On the negative side, l must watch out for certain enemies that
will oppose me. and beware of dangerous gossip The
half-expected mention of the tall, dark stranger did not come
Some of her observations appeared completely irrelevant, but
most were at least remotely applicable to me, with a little
stretching of the imagination
They could have also been applicable to an Eskimo, a Fiji
Islander, or practically anyone else, for that matter.
Sister Marie said she would examine, for another ten dollars,
my olher palm and therebv give a “Full-life reading." which
would supplement the "half-life reading" I had received from the
solitary paw A "full-life reading." she explained, gives a more
complete overview of the individual’s past, present and future
Content with "half-life" knowledge, I made my way out the
door, and Sister Marie bid me goodbye.
Goodbye, Sister Marie
Goodbye, ten bucks
I wonder if l can find a good phrenologist who can help me
understand my desire to investigate these things.
‘I made my
way out the
door, and
Sister Marie
bid me
goodbye.
Goodbye,
Sister Marie.
Goodbye,
ten bucks.’
-Patrick
Powers
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By BEN FUGITT
Entertainment editor
in 1956. Montgomery Clift
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star to stand up to the
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It all ended one night in that
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oulp. His nose was broken, his
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"Montgomery Clift survived
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Marilyn Monroe once said of
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After the tragic wreck which
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Bosworth’s research is so
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Brilliant, sensitive, enig
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ably one of the finest actors in
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