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...from 68-year-old Charles S. Partridge, who is a prophet by avocation. Partridge is a bashful, thermometer-straight, sparse-haired little old gentleman who makes his living as a copyreader for the Wall Street Journal. Ever since he was a boy in Selma, Ala., Partridge has had a countryman's healthy interest in the weather. About 25 years ago he decided to get a scientific background. For five years he visited the Weather Bureau every day, and read hundreds of meteorology books...
...Henri. Upsets were frequent in the winter Olympics' final days. The highly touted U.S. two-man bobsledders got whipped. So did France's curvaceous Georgette Thiellière-Miller, regarded as the world's best woman skier. But a flashy countryman of hers-Henri Oreiller, a 21-year-old sunburnt peasant boy from Val d'Isère-was the only person to win two gold medals in 1948's winter Olympics. He hurtled a snow-covered slope to win the men's downhill, and won the Alpine Combined event, too. Swedes kept grinding...
...tottering voice of literary criticism has either ignored it or rated it as the literary equivalent of scooters and bubble gum. Now, Cornell Lecturer David Daiches (Poetry in the Modern World, The Novel in the Modern World), like Stevenson an Edinburgh expatriate, has made an attempt to increase his countryman's stature with a careful, interesting, but rather timid analysis of Stevenson's works...
Telephones & Targets. Wenner-Gren's telephone deal was almost as involved as the financial matchwork conceived by his late countryman Ivar Kreuger. Since Sweden's tight currency controls will not let Wenner-Gren export more than 2,200 kroner ($600) a month, he had to make the deal through a swap...
Despite his team's edge on paper, James MacDonald went along with his deceased countryman Robert Burns's observation that the best laid schemes o' mice an' men aft gang agley. "Comparative scores in soccer mean little," Mac-ventured yesterday, "adding that in the Yale game they mean nothing...