Word: deweyitis
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Sophomore Rick Dewey looks to perform at the individual medley, while senior Jamey Waters, a first team All-Ivy selection, will prove invaluable at sprints...
...With Florida dragging us down into electoral purgatory, the country doesn't seem to know what to do with itself. Pundits have run out of adjectives and family-friendly exclamations. Newspapers have gone to press declaring Bush the winner. (Doesn't anyone teach the lessons of "Dewey Defeats Truman" in journalism school anymore...
...waiting for days for absentee ballots, and at the moment Bush seems to be the guy with the best shot at an early, decisive win. The reason, of course, is that no one wants to be beaten on printing a winner, yet no one wants to run the next "Dewey Defeats Truman." Editors at, say, major weekly newsmagazines, will be in a tight spot come Wednesday, when presses are supposed to roll, if there's no decisive winner, especially if a winner could emerge before magazines land in subscribers' mailboxes...
DIED. LESLIE KISH, 90, statistician who formulated, among other things, the "margin of error," an assessment of the accuracy of opinion polls; in Ann Arbor, Mich. Kish used his new population sampling techniques in 1948 to predict a narrow Truman victory over Dewey--when almost everyone had forecast a Dewey landslide...
Pendergast promised to pay Lee thousands of dollars if he could hold down the score of certain Northwestern games. Lee agreed and later recruited starting center Dewey Williams and a third player. A college friend put Pendergast in touch with an acquaintance, Brian Irving, who lived in Reno and agreed to place the bets. Over the next few weeks, Pendergast and Irving put the plan into gear. Three Northwestern games were selected: against Wisconsin on Feb. 15, Penn State on Feb. 22 and Michigan on March 1. Once the Nevada sports books set the line, Pendergast would telephone Lee with...