And another postscript: this Janney is slippery.
Janney was also interested in alternative science, and kept up wight he Society at least until the early 1950s—when, like so many other Forteans, he drifted away. Thayer reported in Doubt 33 (October 1951, 86, ellipses in original):
“Our good member W. Janney who spent the period of World Fraud II in assorted prison camps, preferring to dig privy pits rather than salute what he would have had to salute and shoot what he would have had to shoot, has found a rare Drayson book, which some student of the Problem may wish to acquire. It is a first edition of Untrodden Ground in Astronomy and Geology” . . . . London, 1890. “Shabby and worn but sound.” 10 bucks from the Society.
At the time, Janney was a rare book dealer with Laudermilk's bookstore in Washington, D.C., a position he held until 1952. He then became an editor for the American Psychiatric Association’s newsletter and later went to work with National Geographic. These changes in his work may be connected to his dropping away from the Society—either in gaining a different perspective on science, or in simply becoming more busy.
Janney was also interested in alternative science, and kept up wight he Society at least until the early 1950s—when, like so many other Forteans, he drifted away. Thayer reported in Doubt 33 (October 1951, 86, ellipses in original):
“Our good member W. Janney who spent the period of World Fraud II in assorted prison camps, preferring to dig privy pits rather than salute what he would have had to salute and shoot what he would have had to shoot, has found a rare Drayson book, which some student of the Problem may wish to acquire. It is a first edition of Untrodden Ground in Astronomy and Geology” . . . . London, 1890. “Shabby and worn but sound.” 10 bucks from the Society.
At the time, Janney was a rare book dealer with Laudermilk's bookstore in Washington, D.C., a position he held until 1952. He then became an editor for the American Psychiatric Association’s newsletter and later went to work with National Geographic. These changes in his work may be connected to his dropping away from the Society—either in gaining a different perspective on science, or in simply becoming more busy.
