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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zenith Foundation experiments over the radio show that mental telepathy answers averaged more nearly correct than might be expected on the basis of pure chance as determined by ordinary statistical methods...
Fracas began when Ambassador Suvich was quoted in an interview as saying that modern Italy is a "high speed democracy." As first speaker on the Coliseum program, Editor Harrison impolitely undertook to correct him. Said he: "For the past 16 years Mussolini has operated a supreme dictatorship with a cabinet of stooges and a puppet king. If that is Democracy, we want none...
...William Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse sold like tickets to a cockfight. This noted Sigma Chi from the Pittsburgh chapter had previously left a mark at Porter Military Academy and Charleston high. There he made life easier for students by holding that "It's me" is grammatically correct. Just back from being wounded in a tough war, he also used to throw chalk at the sleepy learners in his classes...
...others to Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin rolled into one-invented a famous test in which subjects are asked to "guess." one by one, the cards of a special deck whose faces they are not permitted to see. He submits that the far higher than expected number of correct guesses points plausibly to the existence of telepathy and clairvoyance...
...Rhine has selected material in order to prove his own belief; he inferentially admits that he stops scoring when a subject's percentage of correct guesses falls below a certain limit...