Education: Psychology 1

“So amazing a performance demands an explanation, and the key perhaps is to be found in the fact that in civil life Lieut. Magill was a student of psychology. . . .”

So spoke the august London Times last week of the feat of U.S. Army Lieut. Samuel (“Sammy”) Wallace Magill, who, with only 30 men, captured 20,000 Germans and their general in France (TIME. Sept 25). Continued the Times: “The pity is that the exact psychological method . . . remains for the moment uncertain.”

Investigation last week disclosed that 24-year-old Lieut. Magill is genuinely interested in psychology. After the war he hopes to major in it. But all the psychology he knew when he bluffed the Nazi general and his 20,000 into surrendering was what he had learned in a freshman course at Cleveland’s Fenn College.