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...usual, there were dark portents. On Sept. 5, 1929, just two days after the New York stock market reached its highest level in history, an eccentric statistician named Roger Babson warned the National Business Conference that "sooner or later a crash is coming, and it may be terrific." The market responded nervously, with the New York Times's 25 leading industrial stocks taking a 10-point dip, then recovering. The Times fretted about the "idea of an utterly disastrous and paralyzing crash...
...other words, only 2% of all the marriages then in existence actually ended in divorce that year. "If you take in marriages that occurred 30 and 40 years ago and combine them with recent marriages, it certainly wouldn't turn out to be 50%," agrees Arlene Saluter, a statistician in the Census Bureau's marriage and family statistics branch...
...senior chorus, monitor squad. In sports, as in other things, what he lacked in natural talent he made up for in perseverance. Although his class numbered only 35, North was on neither the football squad nor the basketball team (he did sit on the bench, though, as a basketball statistician). Instead, he took up a sport in which his determination could overcome his lack of natural skills: cross-country running. "He was a plugger," recalls Russell Robertson, North's coach. "His desire pushed his ability." Always the good soldier, North was willing to sacrifice individual glory for the sake...
...last column, I made a pejorative reference to a magazine--which may or may not exist--called Physicist's Weekly. At the time, I thought such a title was the most ridiculous possible for a magazine or trade journal. It seemed even more obscure than Statistician's Monthly which does exist and is stocked in Hilles. Ah, but I was wrong. I had never been to Langdell Library...
...unemployment. James' interview with a pub manager revealed that he knew "bugger all" about the wine trade, and he flunked the psychological test for guards in the London subway. But he worked briefly and erratically as a librarian, factory hand, statistician and publisher's assistant. His digs were more makeshift than his jobs and included, besides a succession of repressive rooming houses, a converted coal barge with a toilet that tended to fill up with the bilges and a paper mattress wrapper on the floor of somebody else's room. One of his roosts was so tiny that the chief...