Word: galluped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Willkie followers, mostly amateurs, went around breathing hard, with a hopeful gleam in their eyes. One thing that made them happy was a widespread feeling that the Dewey drive was slowing up. Here & there delegates openly avowed they would desert Dewey at the first chance. A Gallup Poll, which showed Dewey still far ahead in popular favor (56%). also showed that he had dropped six points in the last two weeks of May. This could not be credited entirely to the Willkie boom: many a crack had been taken at "Toothbrush Tom," and perhaps voters were getting cold feet about...
Meanwhile, from a standing start in March, when he polled less than a 1% vote among Republican rank & file, Willkie had risen to 3% in early May; last week the Gallup Poll gave him 10%. On the strength of the surprising write-in vote (at last count more than 24,000) for Willkie in New Jersey's primary, observers predicted that Willkie might get the votes of half of New Jersey's 32 delegates (pledged to Dewey...
Signs of the times take many forms. Last week thousands of normal U. S. adults-the kind who vote against war in Gallup Polls-played a new nickel-in-the-slot game. It had several names (Keeney, Sky Fighter, Sky Pilot), but the fun of all was to aim an imitation machine gun, pull a trigger, try to shoot down a darting, fugitive image of an airplane. "No wonder players insert coin after coin-" exulted International Mutoscope Reel Co., Inc., in a broadside extolling its Sky Fighter. "It's that 'trigger-finger' itch that everyone...
...conserve resources, most of the Princeton interviews were conducted in nearby areas, and later compared with nationwide findings of CBS and Gallup polls. Some finds: > A student, driving back to college after a date in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., tuned in just in time to hear a bulletin that something from out of this world had landed at Grovers Mills, near Princeton. He listened long enough to hear "Professor Pierson of Princeton" (Welles), and talk of invasion, gas, fire, and many deaths. Believing that everybody was done in down Princeton way, he headed back to rescue his girl, covered 45 miles...
Whatever readers' reactions may be, they will presently be recorded with more accuracy than sales figures alone could provide. Dr. George ("Percentage") Gallup is sending out the book as subject for one of the Gallup polls. A selected cross section of readers will report to Dr. Gallup on such questions as what they like, dislike, and would recommend about Kings Row, how it compares in their esteem with such stemwinders as Gone With the Wind...