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Many people suspect that scientists, riding high in the modern world, are uninterested in man's spiritual qualities, which cannot be subjected to test tube and microscopic analysis. One scientist who is deeply interested in analysis of the spirit is Biologist Edmund W. Sinnott, dean of Yale's Graduate School. In his new book, The Biology of the Spirit (Viking; $3.50), Professor Sinnott tries to find some common foundation for the spiritual feelings of man and the facts about material life that have been discovered by biologists...
...SINNOTT San Francisco ^f " Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it" (Jonathan Swift...
Born. To Brigadier General James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, U.S.M.C. (ret.), 47, commander of the 378 marines who beat off Japanese attacks on Wake Island for 14 days in December 1941, now a Republican candidate for Congress, and Rachel Clarke Cooke Devereux, fortyish, his second wife (his first wife died while he was in a Japanese prison camp): their second child (his third), a son. Name: undecided-because, said the general, "we expected a girl." Weight...
...Sinnott, 18, smashed seats, uprooted radiators and unhinged doors in a Los Angeles theater, to prove that he deserved a part in a new Superman film...
Yale's scientific program is designed to put in practice the warning Dr. Sinnott gave his fellow scientists last week: "The sciences must be taught not as a privileged and superior discipline but as parts of a great whole and against the background of all human knowledge. Only whole men can save the world today...