Word: abbot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list includes David I. Coombs '49, Robert Claflin '50, Charles W. Detjen '50, Richard W. Kimball '50, Daniel A. Cronin, Jr. '50, David M. Abbot '50, Anthony G. Ripley '50, Kaye B. Friedman '50, S. David Kahn '50, Peter J. Franco '49, Thomas W. Harrington...
...stage some revue sketches, be a TV network consultant, be called to Hollywood to star in, co-produce, co-direct, co-write and edit a movie. In spare moments, at all state, national and international functions, he'd like to be toastmaster. He'd like to be abbot of the Friars [which he is], shepherd of the Lambs and president of the Players. And in the sunset of his life, if show business ever has a czar like Happy Chandler, three guesses on Milton's choice...
...Abbot does not hold that earthly temperature changes are directly geared to these solar variations. But he is sure that both follow the same cycle. This, says he, "is so strikingly obvious . . . that no one could doubt that it is both real and a major element in weather." To prove his point, he made a forecast at the beginning of 1948. His prediction named the 55 dates on which his solar cycles would begin, and stated that on those days the temperature in Washington would probably be below normal. In between those days, the temperature would rise by an average...
...Cool Fourth. This year the Abbot forecast was taken out and dusted off. Dr. Loyal B. Aldrich, now head of the Observatory, reported: "On.48 occasions, warmer dates occurred between the dates specified, and . . . the mean excess found thus...
...Abbot, a trim, slim, energetic 76, and ready to take on all doubters, this was conclusive proof of his theories. Instead of locking his 1949 predictions in the safe, he has published them. (He says that the Fourth of July will be relatively cool in Washington; Christmas Day will be warmish.) But the Weather Bureau professionals think they see loopholes in Abbot's defenses. To prove their point, they have turned his theory upside down. Taking his 55 dates in 1948, they have found that besides the warmer days in between, there were also cooler intervening days...