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...corporation profits, who could predict what they would be in 1947? Strikes, for instance, would pull the rug out from under the best of prospects. The shaky state of the stockmarket, which Nathan brushed off as merely "bad psychology," reflected industry's deep concern...
...mood, what the men around him say. Bureau Chief Robert Elson may take over from there, filling in the outline with information he picked up at a background conference in the State Department. Each reporter "sings" in turn: Frank McNaughton, who watches Congress like a hawk, to predict the fate of an important bill; Anatole Visson to relate some unusual doings among the foreign embassies; Frances Henderson to recount the latest news in atomic science...
...looks as if football psychoanalysis will be the biggest new development in the game since the T formation was reincarnated. No one can safely predict who is going to win these days unless he knows what mood the athletes are in around two o'clock Saturday afternoon. The late debacle in the Stadium, together with the Princeton-Penn upset down in Franklin Field, show that, all other factors being about equal, the team that is "up" for the game will...
...Emil-lion on it," said Hu Flung, "and I take DeLiberti to predict...
...only were sure that every team we meet has not improved as much as we have," says MacDonald, "I would not hesitate to predict a successful season, but the trouble is that every coach I talk to says the same thing...