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Many a juvenile champion has later proved to be a flash in the pan. But horsemen have a hunch that Sab will be even more remarkable as a three-year-old than he was at two. In the winter book for next spring's Kentucky Derby, he was quoted last week a 3-to-1 favorite, shortest odds ever quoted so early in the year...
This brief outline is brutally unfair--you must read the book to appreciate fully the tremendous breadth of Professor Sorokin's knowledge--but it does allow of at least one equally sketchy criticism of the method of analysis; Sorokin has started out with the hunch that there are three cultural compartments and then amassed evidence to back the hunch. But it is possible to start out with the different theory of a linear, progressive history of Western civilization and amass evidence to prove it, or to take a theory of parallel lines of development. Sorokin's evidence to prove...
Whether Frank Riggio's idea, Y. & R.'s ads or George Hill's inspired hunch-playing was responsible, Pall Mall had struck a bonanza. It sold 4,000,000,000 cigarets in 1940, seven times its former volume. Last week Profit-Maker Hill, pleased as spiked punch, translated this into dollars for his stockholders. To American Tobacco's 1940 net of $28,311,783 (up 7% over 1939), American Cigarette and Cigar had contributed $1,458,107 (up 276% over 1939). The subsidiary's Pall Mall division had changed a $780,902 loss...
Still, the 12,000 New Yorkers who turned out to greet Torger Tokle last week had a hunch that he would make quite a yump. Lined up around the course like a gigantic keyhole, they watched his familiar blue-clad figure flick down the "inrun" at 50 m.p.h., float past the judges' tower, and glide, arms whirling, into their midst in a perfect landing. His first jump measured 167 ft. In the gathering dusk he took off for his second. This lime he landed on one ski, nearly fell. When the span was measured, a mighty roar went...
...Shatzky had a psychic flash. He ran to the Institute's Director Nolan Don Carpentier Lewis, exclaimed: "This can be the collection of only one man, and he is Sigmund Freud." If his hunch proved wrong, said Librarian Shatzky, he would foot the bill himself. Director Lewis got an appropriation...