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...Professor Rhine should have been a member of the Brain Trust. Mebbe the New Deal would have worked better with hir mental control over the dice...
...that Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine really had a mind that could "dominate dice," (TIME, July 26) he wouldn't be teaching school...
...occupy the Rhine again...
Bewildering Bones. The results, reports Rhine, "were strange and startling." One group of 25 crapshooters, in 562 runs (6,744 throws), got 3,110 hits, or 300 better than par; according to Rhine, the odds against such a result happening by chance are trillions to one. In another test, a woman threw nearly a thousand runs, wound up with 382 hits above par. In still another, a woman performing under the supervision of her husband scored 77 hits above chance in 3,600 tries. The result which put the biggest crimp in Rhine's theory (and which he makes...
When Bazaine rode out to command the vital border fortress of Metz in 1870 (and, a month later, to become Commander in Chief of France's Army of the Rhine), he was heard to mutter: "Nous marchons a un désastre. (We're marching to a disaster.)" Napoleon III, unable to sit a horse (because of bladder trouble), his face rouged (to conceal his deathly pallor from his troops), followed close behind General MacMahon's doomed army. When MacMahon blundered into a German trap at Sedan, the Emperor mounted a horse despite his pain, rode along...