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            <text>=== **Page: 1 of 3**&#13;
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I have recently written to Dr. Russell Targ, the noted physicist who  &#13;
wrote me and asked to be able to follow my work with my collaboration...  &#13;
and made him a proposition...to do over the same experiment that I did  &#13;
for Dr. Max Fogel last pro football season...with this difference:&#13;
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last season I had to scramble the entire season to make a buck to put  &#13;
food on the table and pay the rent, etc. This used up a whole lot of  &#13;
energy...so that by the weekend, when it came time to PK a bunch of pro  &#13;
games, and control them with my mind...my energies were low. AND ENERGY  &#13;
IS THE KEY TO MY ESP WORK. Like a flashlight with weak batteries...will  &#13;
throw off a dim light...so will an ESP person, whose energy is low,  &#13;
be able to work in a weak manner.  &#13;
I asked him to find a financial backer...to cover the pro season by  &#13;
sending me $600 a month to live on...leaving my energies free and frisky  &#13;
to control pro games.  &#13;
Last season I was successful 73%-74%, working "tired".  &#13;
This season, if I do not have to "work tired"...I should be able to  &#13;
get a 85%-90% average.  &#13;
It makes...one heck of a difference.&#13;
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Now, re your really brilliant idea...of my syndicating a world-wide  &#13;
column...you are RIGHT ON!  &#13;
I could, very easily, take current events as fast as they are happening...  &#13;
and project what lies just ahead...re them all! And I am frighteningly  &#13;
accurate!  &#13;
Take now, for instance...I can tell you that Nixon will collapse soon  &#13;
and go into hospital for surgery. Stomach area.  &#13;
Things like that. What will happen re Israel and the Middle East  &#13;
situation...what will happen in elections coming up...where assassination  &#13;
attempts on noted persons will be made next...what prominent entertainers  &#13;
are going to do next...and so on.  &#13;
This just couldn't be beaten...on a rapidly-moving, daily basis!  &#13;
THEN...to add icing to the cake...people could send me their photographs...  &#13;
and I could tell them things about their life nobody knows; their  &#13;
character, personality and disposition; AND WHAT LIES AHEAD OF THEM IN  &#13;
THEIR LIFE! Each day...one of these could be done...printed in the  &#13;
column. And it can be requested in the column for them to verify  &#13;
accuracy or inaccuracy...and print those, too, when they come in!  &#13;
I tell you, Frank, that column would JUMP!  &#13;
However...I do not know how to get that syndication. So will make you  &#13;
another proposition (but keep in mind my other, pro team proposition  &#13;
anyway)...if you can act as my agent and be instrumental in my getting  &#13;
syndication...I will send you a xerox of the contract...then each week,  &#13;
or month, when the pay comes in...will send you your check for 10%  &#13;
for the entire first year. Fair enough? Then each year thereafter  &#13;
while am syndicating...will send you a fat bonus just for the heck of  &#13;
it. See what you can do, Frank?&#13;
&#13;
Best....&#13;
&#13;
Ted Owens  &#13;
(PK Man)&#13;
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=== **Page: 2 of 3**&#13;
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The Virginian-Pilot  &#13;
MORNING AND SUNDAY  &#13;
ESTABLISHED 1865 NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA&#13;
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TELEPHONE MADISON 5-1431  &#13;
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA 23501&#13;
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24 April 1974&#13;
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Dear Ted,&#13;
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Just a note to thank you for your correspondence and disc, which was very thoughtful of you. I continue to be amazed by your accomplishments and documentations. Incidentally, has the movie materialized yet?&#13;
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I have really had no association yet with anyone from the Ambassadors since that is someone else's beat but I still would love for some team to accept your offer. Yet, I also wonder what would happen to sports as it is now if they became a battle of minds instead of bodies.&#13;
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Yes!  &#13;
How?&#13;
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Have you ever thought of syndicating a world-wide column, which could contain both predictions and personal messages to readers? I think it would be very beneficial to you and also would help establish your accomplishments and powers.&#13;
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Best regards and tell your son I said hello.&#13;
&#13;
Frank  &#13;
Wickham&#13;
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=== **Page: 3 of 3**&#13;
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FROM THE DESK OF  &#13;
Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN)&#13;
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April 26, 1974  &#13;
Dear Frank:&#13;
&#13;
Have missed your sports columns recently. There is no substitute for a Frank Vehorn column.  &#13;
The movie...they (the studio) keeps calling me every so often from Los Angeles and I talk. to the producer for almost an hour each time. But it is moving like a turtle.  &#13;
What would happen to sports...if ESP Masters entered into the fray? Color, that is what would happen. If you think that the public is titillated now...over pro football...I would unhesitatingly predict that the titillation would become doubled...with ESP Masters fronting each team, each game...covering each play. And the TV and press media would have a field day! Can you imagine the interest...of PK Man fronting "The Flying Saucers" team...going head-to-head against Peter Hurkos or Jean Dixon...fronting the Miami Dolphins? We would, of course, wear the colors and insignaa of our team...be dressed in some special jumper suit or outfit...and probably be on the bench with the players...or perhaps centered among the fans just behind the bench. And why should it not be a battle of minds as well as bodies? Would be the A-1 sauce on the steak, Frank. Why do you suppose teams playing at home...are automatically, as a rule, made 5-10 points before the game starts? Sure, there is a psychological lift...but all the home fans, wishing en masse for their team to win, are actually projecting a psychokinetic effect! Upon the game. I tell you Frank, when ESP Masters join the pro teams...it will add a load of color and excitement into the games that has never been there!&#13;
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