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To Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands, to St. Michaels in bleak Norton Sound, through storms on the shallow Bering Sea to St. Lawrence Bay on the coast of Siberia, through the Bering Straits to the black cliffs of Herald Island, the Jeannette pushed her way. There she was frozen in...
"I never have free time; I only see People when I haven't," began Edwin G. Bering, head of the Department of Psychology, as he launched into a discussion of the new mental telepathy experiments now being conducted at Duke and Harvard Universities.
But Professor Bering was very reluctant to give any publicity to the details of the new experiments which are now being carried on in the Harvard Psychological Department. "Ninety percent of our experiments necessitate the use of human material," he explained, "and the student doesn't and shouldn't know...
"If you were as old as I am, you'd realize that one thing after another turns out to be of little scientific importance," closed Professor Bering. "Just as the German horse and Mrs. Crandon did not withstand scientific investigation, so the Rhine effect may not bear fruit."
In Moscow, Dictator Joseph Stalin was pleased to designate Flyer Sigismund Levanevsky as the first man, when the time comes, to try the flight from Moscow to San Francisco via the North Pole base. Lithe, taciturn pilot Levanevsky is a boot-black's son who fought with the Red...