Word: statistician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven-day week (the club has been closed on only three occasions: V-E and V-J days and the day of Franklin Roosevelt's funeral). There is almost no guesswork at Harold's. The statistical department, headed by Guy Lent, 55, formerly a chief statistician for Cities Service Co. in New York, knows the odds on every angle of the business. From a quick count of the license plates outside, the Smiths can tell how they should be doing (Californians are the biggest spenders, New Englanders the smallest). When one game starts to lose favor with Harold...
...idea caught on: perhaps Israel might get a second president as big as the first. Quipped a government statistician: "He might even be able to work out the mathematics of our economy and make sense out of it." To peppery Premier David Ben-Gurion, who loves learning and knows, moreover, the value of an imposing name, the idea sounded fine. While Israel's President has only small powers at home, abroad he could be an important symbol of a struggling new state which needs both aid and sympathy. Characteristically, without bothering to consult either his cabinet or party...
...Penalty Is Death. The man who passed most of the ammunition to the doctors was Louis I. Dublin, no physician but a Ph.D. and top statistician for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., who has been charting the lives and deaths of his fellow men for 40 years. Dr. Dublin and his assistants told visiting physicians (many of whom were toting too much weight around) what they have learned about health and disease in overweight subjects, and passed out sets of colored charts as reminders. The chief findings...
This week, with the publication of a new book called They Went to College (Harcourt, Brace; $4), U.S. readers could find out. The book is the product of a five-year study, made by TIME, of 9,064 representative graduates. A Columbia University statistician, Patricia Salter West, analyzed the survey, and LIFE Editor Ernest Havemann translated the statistics into eminently readable English. The result: as complete a portrait of the Old Grad as has ever been published...
...number of veterans in the University, getting G.I. Bill aid, has been slashed to a half of what it was last year, a University Veterans' Office report revealed Wednesday. The report was drawn up by William D. McDowall, a statistician in the office, for the use of the Bursar's Office and other University departments...