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Last week Canadian isobars* also disappeared from U. S. weather maps. Although the attitude of Canadian weathermen towards their U. S. collaborators continued warm, their forecastings were cloudy, omitted any mention of barometric pressure. Chief U. S. Weatherman Francis Wilton Reichelderfer was nothing daunted. Said he, U. S. meteorologists have developed such a weather-eye technique that lack of Canadian reports will not seriously affect U. S. forecasts. Most U. S. weather is brewed in the Gulf of Mexico, or somewhere on the vast North American hinterland south of Alaska, and most U. S. storms move from west to east...
Said dogged Shreck. "I just kept going." Said his wife: "It's wonderful." Said an airport friend of the flying weatherman, as a sort of explanation for Pilot Shreck's escape rather than a comment on his fix: "He never drinks or smokes...
Last week the U. S. got a new No. 1 weatherman-chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau. Appointed to succeed Willis Ray Gregg, who died last September, was Commander Francis Wilton Reichelderfer, U. S. N., an able, earnest meteorologist whose experiences include flying in Navy airplanes, dirigibles and racing balloons, taking part in the search for Amelia Earhart, furnishing weather information (from Lisbon) for the historic transatlantic flight of the NC-4. Quiet, matter-of-fact, Commander Reichelderfer likes dancing, music, an occasional cocktail, spends much time reading up on new developments in weather science...
Consensus of shipping men was that the fog had cost them $1,000,000. James Henry Kimball, Manhattan's longtime weatherman, was inclined to double that figure. American, Eastern and United Air Lines and TWA estimated fog losses totaling $110,000. Manhattan's Empire State Building put its loss of sightseeing revenue...
...weatherman smiles on Soldiers Field this afternoon, one of the strongest teams in the Eastern Intercollegiate, Baseball League will be seen in action, when the hard-hitting Cornell outfit tackles the Varsity. For the Crimson, Coach Fred Mitchell will probably choose Captain Eddie Loughlin to perform in the first game, which is scheduled for 3 o'clock, while Drib Braggiotti will take the second affair...