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...psychic games which Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine introduced to science-Extra-Sensory Perception (card-guessing) and Psychokinesis (crap-shooting)-psychologists have found crapshooting more fun. Rhine's PK ("mind over matter") theory, that man can control the fall of dice by will power (TIME, July 26, 1943), is now being tested on both sides of the Atlantic...
...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...
Byliners. Only since the Norwegian invasion have PK men been given bylines in the German press. Crack reporters of the campaigns around Trondheim, Andalsnes. and Hamar were Horst Lehmann (correspondent for Hitler's Volkischer Beobachter, Goebbels' Der Angriff), Kurt Stolzenberg, Fritz Dettmann, Walter Möller...
...PK leader on the Western Front is a blond, blue-eyed, Westphalian farmer's son, Captain Albert Kost. No career officer like Colonel von Wedel, he has been a Nazi politician for many years, at 45 is a member of Hitler's submissive Reichstag. Taciturn, quiet, heavy-featured, Captain Kost is an ardent Catholic with five children...
...Ettighoffer, a native of Alsace who fled to Germany when his homeland was restored to France. Frank, charming and loquacious, he is a notable Nazi essayist, novelist, poet. An intellectual, he nevertheless volunteered for service in the regular Army, was cited several times for bravery, later transferred to a PK post. His are the most readable dispatches that come to Berlin from the front...