Word: predictioneer
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"Take a good look at this man, boys," said Dr. William C. Gorgas to his staff as they performed an autoosy on a Panama Canal construction worker in 1905. "It's the last case of yellow fever you'll ever see. There'll be no more deaths...
Ten hustlers from Harvard's own school for hustlers--the Business School across the Charles--chipped in 300 Philip Morris wrappers apiece last week to take top honors in the cigarette company's football prediction contest and snared an Admiral television set for the Tycoon Club.
*Last year's winter prediction, "white, long and cold," was right for the northeastern U.S. And on 22 "weather highlights" of 1947, Weather-wise claimed he called the turn 50% of the time, the Weather Bureau only 27.2%.
Of the 12 cabinet jobs, at least three should be emptied before June graduations. One is, of course, that of the Secretary of State. Anybody who pays the slightest attention to the newspapers (or the radio) knows that Marshall intends to retire, and that there are at least 17 candidates...
Dining officials expect students will either be out of Cambridge or eating at homes of friends, and base their one-out-of-four prediction on 1947 figures which show that elightly less than 25 percent of the regular resident undergraduates ate their dinners here.