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...artists, and a few scientists, the hand is as revealing as the face in expressing temperament, heredity, life habits, glandular function. One such scientist, Dr. Charlotte Wolff, physician and psychologist, last week gave her second summary of findings in the science of chirology. In The Human Hand (Alfred A. Knopf, $3) she carried on her rescue of the hand from the hocus-pocus of palmistry and fortunetelling, gave laymen some interesting reading as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hand Reading | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...Wolff, once of Germany, now of University College, London, had already done impressive hand reading. Reading character from hands thrust through a curtain, she noted of George Bernard Shaw that his "creative powers are nourished by a spirit of combat and opposition," of Julian Green that he is "as lost in the world of reality as a fish upon dry land." She has developed her method with thousands of cases in hospitals, schools, institutions, has emerged with further scientific principles of personality-reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hand Reading | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...Crimson team which lost to Princeton at the Harvard Club in Boston consisted of Rogber C. Henselman '42, William C. Murphy '42, and Arthur Northrop '42. Winners over Yale at New Haven were Payson Wolff '42, Harold Bailin '43, and Thomas J. O'Toole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Split in HYP; Princeton Is Victorious | 4/28/1942 | See Source »

Upholding the affirmative at Boston will be Roger C. Henselman '42, William C. Murphy '42, and Arthur Northrup '42, and at New Haven Payson Wolff '42, Harold Bailin '43, and Thomas J. O'Toole 1L will argue the negative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HYP DEBATERS TO TALK HERE | 4/24/1942 | See Source »

Debating the topic, "Resolved: That there should be a union of the United States and the British Commonwealth of Nations", will be William Murphy '42, Roger C. Hensleman '42, Thomas J. O'Toole 1L, Payson R. Wolff '42, Harold M. Bailin '43, and Arthur H. Northup '42. Alternates are John I. Gordon '42 and Haskell Grodberg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Chosen for HYP Debate on April 24 | 4/17/1942 | See Source »

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