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...that Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine really had a mind that could "dominate dice," (TIME, July 26) he wouldn't be teaching school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 16, 1943 | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...last nine years Rhine has kept a small group of followers shooting craps to prove "the dominance of mind over matter." Convinced that mind can at least dominate dice, he has given his theory a scientific name, PK (psychokinesis), and published his evidence in the Journal of Parapsychology, a Rhine house organ for E.S.P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Crapologist | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...operation ever attempted-not excepting Xerxes' expedition against Greece (1,000 boats, 200,000 men). Now for a few hours he had to live with the bleak inner loneliness that comes to a commander when he has made his cast and must wait for the fall of the dice, wondering whether he has anticipated everything, what will go wrong, how well reality will fit the shape of his intricate, painstaking plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF SICILY: Overseas Operations | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

Postmaster General Frank Comerford Walker, portly, pink Democratic national chairman, once had a horrid experience with some dice-so said the National Police Gazette's publisher. Applying for restoration of the Gazette's mailing privilege (revoked for lewdness), the publisher testified that Walker had objected to the magazine's dice advertisements because he once bought a pair to entertain friends at home, took all the money with an innocent twist of the wrist, and later discovered that one of the dice was loaded. From an assistant to Postmaster General Walker, the press got the pained retort that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 19, 1943 | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...shortages than the toy industry, the game industry is doing more business than ever before. It is riding an Army & Navy boom: practically every serviceman's kit includes a pack of cards, a checker board or a backgammon set, and the U.S. Army recently ordered 1,500,000 dice at one clip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Less Work for Santa | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

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