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...incident reminded many of a 1949 experiment by Marine Major George Gilliland of Long Beach. Calif., who set up a stuffed buck at the roadside in hunting country and saw it shot some 400 times in two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fair Game | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...Regarding Professor Garrett's criticism of Dr. Gilliland's finding that white babies scored a mean I.Q. of 103 and that Negroes earned 105.6 [TIME, Sept. 17], may I say that you are still right in the essence of the matter. Frankly, it matters little which "race" received the superior score. Professor Garrett must know that the mental differences within a race are greater than the average mental differences between two races. In the adult mental world it is not race that counts but individual rank on a valid test of intelligence. As for Garrett's chimpanzees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1951 | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...TIME Aug. 27 says, "After testing 220 white and Negro babies on such items as crawling, babbling, standing and grabbing, Psychologist A. R. Gilliland of Northwestern University poked another hole into an old superstition. Mean I.Q. of the white babies: 103; of the Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...After testing 220 white and Negro babies on such items as crawling, babbling, standing and grabbing, Psychologist A. R. Gilliland of Northwestern University poked another hole into an old superstition. Mean I.Q. of the white babies: 103; of the Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

Adaptable. In Monterey, Calif., Joe Gilliland lost his auto license after three arrests for drunken driving, was presently jolted into the ditch while doing some drunken horse-&-buggy driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 12, 1948 | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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