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...Bean, the main speaker for the evening, will discuss the long-range political implications of the recent election, with a side explanation of where his rival pollsters went off the track in predicting a Republican sweep this year...
...Louis Bean, the only political analyst who predicted President Truman's re-election, will share the lecture platform with Associate Professor Louis Hartz and Professor Alvin Hansch tonight in a discussion of "1948 Elections and After." The meeting will take place in Emerson D at 7:30 p.m. under the auspices of the Liberal Union and Radcliffe's Students for Democratic Action...
Known in Washington as the "statistical wizard," Bean wrote the book "How to Predict Elections" which was published prior to this year's campaign, and in which he predicted that a Democratic victory in 1948 was not improbable. Election records show that Bean has not been wrong by more than one percent in 12 years of predicting elections...
...drug to cure human ailments, it proved worthless. The Upjohn Co. gave the new drug to the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station at East Lansing to see what effect it had on plants. In strong solutions, it killed young bean and oat seedlings. Apparently actidione was good for nothing...
...greenhouse near the slain seedlings were some grown-up bean plants badly infected with powdery mildew. Remembering that actidione was supposed to kill fungi (including mildews), the Michigan scientists sprayed them with a weak solution. In 48 hours the mildew disappeared. They made the solution still weaker and tried it on other afflicted beans. It worked like a charm in dilutions as great as one part per million (1 oz. to 7,497 gals. of water...