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Well, Ted Williams' wife is still holding out for more alimony, and Mrs. Eisenhower had to spend Opening Day back on the farm at Gettysburg, but it looks like the 1955 baseball season has gotten started anyway. Which puts us in an embarrassing position, since we shattered our crystal ball last September after picking the Yankees and Dodgers to win the pennants, with the Indians fourth and the Red Sox second. But still we try again, using this time a burned-out light bulb that happens to be handy...
...Crystal Ball. That was where the matter stood at midweek when 217 reporters crowded into the President's news conference. What did Old Soldier Dwight Eisenhower have to say about the situation in the Formosa Strait...
...None of us," said Ike, "possesses a crystal ball . . . To prophesy when a war is going to break out is to pretend-is to assume that we have an accuracy of information that, I think, has never yet been attained by a country that was to be attacked . . . The risk of war is always with us, and we have got to be vigilant. We have got to be careful . . . I do not believe that the peace of the world, the tranquillity of the world, is being served at this moment by talking too much in terms of speculation about such...
...Almost fully recovered from his recent illness, Pope Pius XII went for a ride in a transparent automobile. This car, the Pontiff's own idea, was built in Turin of crystal glass on a 1954 U.S. Chrysler chassis. Purpose: to let people see the Pope full-length, even in inclement weather (he feels that frequent public appearances are necessary to forestall rumors about his health...
...famous Oriental legend-about the inevitability of fate-that also suggested John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra. The doom-dodger in this some-what Oriental tale of French circus life is a much-besought tamer of tigers (Jan Farrand), who, fearing the future, gazes into the crystal ball of the magician (Louis Jourdan). In two flash-forwards, the ball reveals that on her next birthday -whether she marries a juggler or a millionaire-she must perish in a steamship disaster. Finally, because his own future is the one thing the ball lacks the power to foretell...