Word: weatherman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Minnie's somewhat frenzied exterior, however, a calm business mind functions. She engages all of the stadium's stars herself, carries on a private little war with the weather, and sometimes the weatherman, trying to determine whether to call a concert off or take a chance. She cheerfully admits: "It's too much of a job for an old crow like me." And then cheerfully adds that she has not the faintest notion of giving...
Editor Dick Finnegan of the Chicago Sun-Times thought he had shocking news: Chicago had more murders (326)-one-third of them unsolved-than any other U.S. city last year. But no one was shocked at the paper's story. Said Finnegan: "It was just as if the weatherman said it was going to rain tomorrow." Civic-minded Newsman Finnegan, with an appraising eye fixed on the circulation chart, decided to kick Chicago in the seat of its complacency. Soon, on billboards and in Page One headlines, the Sun-Times (circ. 635,000) was screaming, SOMEBODY KNOWS! Day after...
...years as a weatherman-five of them as chief meteorologist for the city of New York-Benjamin Parry has seen vast improvements in weather predictions and weather service. The Weather Bureau (which once closed up shop every night at 10) now gives 24-hour service, predicts minimum & maximum temperatures, wind velocities, and types and volume of precipitation...
...Crimson's biggest enemy may turn out to be the weatherman. Rain fell all yesterday in Ithaca. A slippery ball would affect Valpey's long centers, pitch-outs, and triple handoffs much more than Lefty James' simpler T-formation ball-handling. However, the latest weather information says only scattered clouds...
...history and pre-game statistics mean anything, the Crimson will beat Pennsylvania on Soldiers Field this afternoon. The Quakers lost to Yale yesterday in New Haven 5 to 1, with the three doubles matches rained-out, and, pending the machinations of the weatherman, they should receive a similar pounding this afternoon...