THE DETROIT FREE PRESS

Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.

2 December 1947

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'Charmed' Life of Mystic Ends in Death at 72.

HASTINGS, England, Dec. 1.—Aleister Crowley, magician and mystic, claimed that when he was 40 he had distilled and drunk the true elixir of life supposed to prolong life forever.

Monday night, at 72, he died.