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...Weather in many parts of the U.S. fluctuates in a 23-year pattern; periods of maximum rainfall and drought occur at about that interval. By studying cycles, a scientist was able to forecast accurately in 1939 some of 1942's big floods...
...Then, soon after the takeoff, its engines stalled and it crashed. Among those killed: General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Premier of the Polish Government in Exile and commander of its armed forces; his daughter, Mrs. Sophia Lesniowska; General Tadeusz Klimecki, Chief of the Polish General Staff; Colonel Andrzej Marecki, military scientist; British Colonel Victor Alexander Cazalet, M.P., political liaison officer to Sikorski...
...artists, and a few scientists, the hand is as revealing as the face in expressing temperament, heredity, life habits, glandular function. One such scientist, Dr. Charlotte Wolff, physician and psychologist, last week gave her second summary of findings in the science of chirology. In The Human Hand (Alfred A. Knopf, $3) she carried on her rescue of the hand from the hocus-pocus of palmistry and fortunetelling, gave laymen some interesting reading as well...
...wide on land and ships at sea, to give the readings that air-mass analysts need for accurate forecasts for farmers, airmen, generals. For local readings, useful to pilots and battlefront command, it is portable, easy to install. It is not in war use. So far Professor Heck, true scientist, is just "having a lot of fun with...
...runs the show is scholarly, affable, 37-year-old Erwin Dain ("Spike") Canham, one of the nation's ablest news men. A Christian Scientist and a Rhodes scholar, he worked for the Monitor over seas and in Washington before promotion to his present job three years...