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...meteorologist became a familiar figure in the Boston area through his weekly television program, "Why the Weather," and was known throughout the United States as the author of several books on climatology...
...chest to a monitoring physiologist. Film strapped to his forearms and chest would pick up the tracks of any cosmic particles that might crash through to his skin. A C-47 with a paramedic aboard started to track his flight. Down below, radar blips traced his path and a meteorologist turned a weather eye on the heavens. To help science, Simons carried along a good-luck charm from his wife bearing an outline of the moon and the inscription: "When you land here, it's time to return." Heading for the moon, Simons clicked his cameras, chatted into...
...Concrete. Ever since the mid-1930s a few big, weather-wise companies have had prophets for profit on their staffs. As early as 1937, San Francisco's Pacific Gas & Electric hired Meteorologist Charles Pennypacker Smith to forecast temperatures in northern California, where a 1° drop can change gas demand by 40 million cu. ft. But the real boom in private weathermen came after World War II, when a flood of new meteorologists and new techniques from the armed forces became available to industry. Now, at fees ranging from $25 for a short-range forecast...
Magic on the Stand. Nobody talks a client's language better than Dr. Irving P. Krick, 50, onetime Caltech meteorologist who started the first private weather firm in Denver in 1938. A leading rainmaker as well as a hail-halter (TIME, May 20), Krick now serves 200 companies, 260 radio stations and the Mexican Department of Agriculture. As a controversial proponent of really long-range predictions, Krick insists that daily weather can be foretold as far ahead as several years. His most famous forecast: a magic burst of sunshine for the inaugural committee just as President Eisenhower stepped onto...
...some, Weatherman Krick was merely lucky, but he and his colleagues insist that their fast-growing young business, financed by industry's millions, is making great strides in the art of weather forecasting. In Hartford, Travelers Insurance Co.'s Meteorologist Dr. Thomas F. Malone has been working on an "odds system" of reporting, which tells radio listeners the precise odds on climate changes ("rain today: 6 out of 10") in contrast to the usual vague predictions. And even a small enterpriser like Houston's John C. Freeman Jr., 37, president of two-year-old Gulf Consultants...