Word: predictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jokingly blamed recent sunspot magnetic storms on him, worried about the end of the world. In Philadelphia, Press Agent William A. A. Castellini of the Fels Planetarium telegraphed Benny, care of Station KYW: "Your worst fears that world will end are confirmed by astronomers of the Franklin Institute. Scientists predict that the world will end at 3 p. m. E. S. T. April 1." A KYW announcer read the telegram-an obvious plug for a Planetarium show called "How the World Will End&"-following a news broadcast, with no mention of Jack Benny. Result: a minor panic in the City...
...relay. Dick Harris, Max Kraus, and Ned Goldwasser are slated for the 300, while Cutler and Powers will swim in the 220 as usual. Against these men Eli Coach Bob Kiphuth should pit a moderately strong medley teams, but because his reserves are so deep, it is difficult to predict his entries. A combination of White, Meyer, and Pope would be strong enough to insure victory...
...even Coach Rene Peroy, would deny that there is enough material this winter for an outstanding fencing team. Practically all of the first-stringers are back, and the 1939 record is not to be sneezed at. Yet it is perhaps too early to climb out on a limb and predict a full string of wins...
...Grant can drive a racquets ball faster and more tellingly than any other racqueteer. In the last three years he has cornered the vaunted Tuxedo Gold Racquet, U. S. amateur and open, Canadian singles and both U. S. and Canadian doubles (with Clarence C. Pell Jr.). U. S. racqueteers predict that Grant will handily win the world's open championship from David Milford, if & when World War II permits them to meet...
Interviewed yesterday in Eliot House, where he stayed over the weekend after giving a Morris Gray lecture on Friday. Mr. Lewis would not expand on what he meant by the word "win." starting that his real knowledge was of art and literature, not statesmanship. But he did predict that a "reinvigorated democracy" would come out of the present turmoil...