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* 21 ame. otta ch * eee TOR I ae ear A ha ee eee “4 : RHINE, I, B.Continued HIN EB, 1 ontinued presupposing what he undertakes to prove,” this crite, too, admired what he termed Rhine's warm and Vivid narrative, The volume, which was a Book-of-tdhe-Month-Club selection, be- came a nonfiction best seller and made ESP cards a commercial commodity and even_re- sulted in a telepathic radio program. Pro- ceeds from the cards helped defray expenses of experiments, while the book did much to attract a flow of endowments to Duke Uni- versity's Parapsychological Laboratory. — A further tecluical report, Extra-Sensory, Per- ception After Sixty Years, the collaboration of Rhine and three of his assistants, appeared in 1940. The laboratory director has estimated “that at least one person in five has had some experience where his mind received knowledge through supernormal channels,” Since 1040, when Rhine became director of the Parapsychological Laboratery, the accent in the work of this cesearch institution has been on psychokinesis. “In these PK experi ments, which were carried out to discover whether the mind can ‘directly influence the motion of materia! objects,” Rhine has written, “we resoried to dice throwing.” At frst the dice were cast by hand, later from a cup. Finally, in 1943, an electrically driven cage was developed which, while evoking much facetious comment, did eliminate the possibility of tam- pering. “From the beginning,” wrote the psy- chologist,; “the PK scores tended to be above ‘chance’ and .. . as a result of hundreds of thousands of experimental trials we found it to be a fact that it [PK] - + . exerts an. in- @uence on matter whith, though very slight abel 64 caries is suii significant, and which is eI Thy ate seas + “wy wey Ak Ys cuti BY KNOWN to physics.” More than this, he believes that since ESP has been “found to function without iimitation from time and’ space” and since “all that immortality means is freedom from the effects of space and time,” the logical conclu- sion is that “there is at least sume sort of tech- nical survivial” after death. (The statements quoted are from The Reaches of the Mind, published in book form in 1947 and condensed in the Reader's Digest for February 1448.) Reviewing the work for the New York San, Wilham McFee found himself “willing to wait for further news from the beyond.” The critic for the Saturday Review of Literature de- clared that “as usual, Rhine writes calmly, but again the evidence he presents is so startling that it will be received hy mest people emo- tionally rather than rationally.” The profes- sor himself is convinced that, while science does not yet gencrally accept his evidence, “eventual acceptance is assured.” He has said: “The reasons such evidence is not accepted at once by the scicutists are, [ think, more psy- chological than lvgical.” Professor Rhine, whe is editor of the Jour- nal of Furapsychology, is a trustee of the American Society for Psychical Research, a corresponding member of the parent society in London, and a member of the American Acad- emy of Arts and Sciences, the American Psy- chological Association, and the Southern So- cicty of Philosophy and Psychology. He be CURRENT BIOGRAPHY Sigma Phi, and Phi bda Lipsilon fraterni- ties. The Rhines have four children, Robert Eldon, Sara Louise, Elizabeth Ellen and Rose- mary. In a Life “close-up,” Francis Stil Wickware_ has described Rhine as “resembling Abraham Lincoln in profile, Walter Huston in - fullface." Tris Coffin, after watching him at a Washington lecture, wrote: “His eyes were very alive and set far, far back. His thick hair was almost all gray.” The professor finds relaxation in listening to music. References + . nr + ae Life 8-884 Ap 15 ‘40 Pois rs Sat Rev Lit 16:40 0 9'°37 American Men of Science (1944) International Who's Who, 1948 Rhine, J. B. Extra-Sensory Perception (1934); New Frontiers of the Mind (1937) Who's Who in America, 1948-49 ” OOSEVELT, (ANNA) ELEANOR (ra z4vélt) Oct. 11, 1884- United Nations of- ficial: writer Address: b_ c/a Commission on Human Rights, United Nations, New York: h. 29 Washington Sq. W., New York 11; Hyde Park, N.Y. Nore: This biography supersedes the article which appeared in Cur- rent Biography in 1940. “At sixty-four, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt has become perhaps the best-known woman in the world.” So wrote Time in Orteher 1040 Af Exeanor noosevelt, who in April 1946 herame Lhaituean Uf te United Nations UNESCO Commission on Human Rights. Seven months after. the _death of her husband, President Franklin Delano Koosevelt ™, she had been anpointed a United States delegate to the U.N. in recogniticn of her own career in public service. Through her newspaper and maga- zine articles and her platform and radio talks her ideas have reached a world-wide audience. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born to Elliott and Anna (Hall) Roosevelt in New York City on October 11, 1884, Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-fifth President of the United States (1901-8), was her uncle. Both the Rooseveles and Halls were prominent socially, the first- named a wealthy family of Dutch descent, the latter of the same family as Philip Livingston, the English-descended signer of the Declara- tion of Independence. Eleanor’s father was known as a sportsman and big game hunter, and her mother. was a noted beauty of her day. When the child was eight, not long after the birth of her second brother (only Hall, the younger boy, lived to adult years), her? mother died, and the littl girl went to live with her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Valen- tine G, Hall. Elliotr Roosevelt died a yer and a half later. Jn her autobiography, TAis Ty My Story, Eleanor Roosevelt tells of her childliood. Taught at home by tutors for the most part, she has written, “My real educa- tion did not begin until I went abroad at fifteen.” Her years from ten to Aftcen were ee 8 wrumienirss.ncsmnennataitemmomannaniiin iteaiass + is ETE me a