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...swore an oath at the weatherman for telling him that it was 34 below zero on top of Mount Washington, and an oath at the meteorologists for the 80 mile an hour wind which was going to ruin his skiing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thompson Prohibits Crime for Two Weeks | 12/21/1955 | See Source »

...fronts, temperatures and meandering isobars, check his own predictions against the experts' forecasts. In Kansas City last week, Truman confided that, although it is now impractical for the bureau to send him the big maps he used to fuss with, he "sure would like to get them" again. Weatherman Truman sided with the much-maligned experts, too. Asked why Kansas City had been blanketed by an unexpected snow that very morning, Harry Truman chuckled: "If you had looked at the weather map, you would have seen it was in the cards." In Brussels, comely Countess Alvina Van Limburg Stirum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 19, 1955 | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...rains today, as the weatherman predicts it will, it would probably hurt Cornell more than it would the Crimson. For the Big Red's attack operates primarily on DeGraaf's right arm, and his backs' deceptive running...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Rates Slight Favorite | 10/8/1955 | See Source »

Caltech may have dropped meteorology, but I won't give up my memories of Long Range Forecasting Unit A, the Air Force weather unit that invaded the basement of Culbertson Hall for six months in 1943. Under Weatherman Dr. Irving P. Krick (then Major Krick), enlisted men plotted worldwide weather maps, and Krick and his forecasters endeavored to predict weather as far ahead as 30 days . . . One day, badgered (via Teletype) by Washington HQ for an overdue forecast, Krick could not get them to understand that the delay was caused by missing or unavailable data. Finally he blew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...weatherman has predicted that the sunny weather, like the reading period, will end today with thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight which should make the setting of the glass flowers at the University Museum more appropriate. A few hearty folk (right) were even in attendance there yesterday afternoon despite the fact that the temperature yesterday was only two degree off the record 91 set in 1936. By night, the temperature had punged to a "cool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cantabrigians Wilt, Azaleas Bloom | 5/25/1955 | See Source »

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