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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Daily Except Sunday. Every night except Sunday, Camp Butner's soldiers fight it out in elimination bouts, to contend some day for the Division championship. Friday night is the big night. With regimental bands tootling between bouts, an eleven-match card is staged in the camp's natural amphitheater on the side of a pine-rimmed hill. Fights are limited to three rounds (four in case of a draw...
...card game which is also a test for psychic abnormalities has been worked out by Drs. Starke R. Hathaway and John Charnley McKinley of the University of Minnesota. All the player has to do is go through 550 statements printed on cards, file each card as "true" or "false" or "cannot...
...Hathaway and McKinley first announced their "Multiphasic Personality Inventory" in 1940. Similar tests were already in existence, but none were as comprehensive as the 550-card set. Advantages of the cards: a patient's whole attention is more easily focused on one question at a time; filing cards is "less like signing your name to something you haven't read" than the ordinary truth & false tests...
...dock Commander Higbee found a puddle of oil, threw a cigaret in it, watched it blaze, ordered a coxswain to put it out. Then on a dry lumber stack near by he pinned his card: "Dear Watchman: I was here; where were...
Critics, suspicious at first, or irritated by this presumptive bidding by a novice, found the new Culbertson system worth serious regard. He had tackled the postwar world like a bridge problem involving a deck with 2,000,000,000 cards, hundreds of suits. His solution was as logical and precise as his card-playing...