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With political conventions less than a year away, and presidential primaries only months in the future, speculation and prediction on the fate of the GOP are rife. Despite the setback in his Dewey victory forcast in '48, Gallup feels that Truman could not stand against a popular and non-controversial Republican. Now that this party has control, albeit split control, of Congress, the time has come to put a Republican in the White House. Elsewhere Gallup, as well as other political observers, have expressed the belief that another defeat for the GOP would make way for the rise...
Television will attract more than 300,000 in the local area, Ralph Giffen, football production director of WBZ-TV, predicted last night. Giffen based his forcast on the fact that there are approximately 23,000 installed sets, half of which are in private homes. "Figuring on an average of six watchers to a set in homes and many more at the taverns, even 300,000 becomes a conservative estimate of the number we will reach," Giffen said...
...research work. In 1885, after a year's experience as assistant at the Ann Arbor Astronomical Observatory, he became assistant at the Harvard Observatory, where he made many meteorological observations. In 1886 he became observer at Blue Hill Observatory, and with the exception of three years as local forcast official of the U. S. Weather Bureau, has been there ever since, carrying on research work...
...very difficult now to forcast the prospects of the crew for next year. Of this year's University eight and fouroared the following men will graduate; Mcgrew, F. W. Foster, George, Wolcott, Hartwell Derby and Ayer, but of these Hartwell will return to the Law School and Ayer to the Medical School. Besides these two men and the others now in the university boats it is expected that all the men on the Freshmen crew will return to College