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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...method the group used was to have students try to duplicate an IBM examination sheet which had been checked at random and which was at the time 500 miles away. This year the society will conduct the same experiments and will try to determine how personality traits affect the students' attempts to duplicate the sheet. Previous experience suggests that personality traits do have a bearing on extra-sensory perception...
...worshiping quality of Grace Tully's F.D.R., My Boss; she just runs along easily as though she were showing the family album to some old friends. Yet every few pages she comes to a striking, familiar snapshot of the great ones among whom she and her husband moved. Random shots...
KNIGHT'S GAMBIT (246 pp.)-William Faulkner-Random House...
...railroad flares, the marches set fire-to leaf-piles and maple trees to add to the gaiety, and chant the procession onto "Nas-sau Street!" As the crowd, now 1000 strong, juggernauts hand-in-hand down the thoroughfare, the band leader cake-walks and a masquerade tiger polkas with random dates...
...Million" is an early attempt at the formula that later proved successful in "Tales of Manhattan." A dying millionaire decides to give away his money--in million-dollar gobs--to people selected at random from the city directory. He does this to avoid leaving it to his relatives, who are gathered in the hallway like homing turkey buzzards. The point of it all is that Good People can be happy with money, but that Bad People cannot, and so on, through half a dozen incidents...