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...Bureau of the Census announced that one out of every eight married persons in the U.S. has been married more than once. The Gallup poll reported that only 49% of U.S. husbands & wives would remarry their present partners if they had the chance of starting over again...
...Iowa City, Pollsters George Gallup and Archibald Crossley dutifully showed up for a three-day forum on poll-taking (Elmo Roper was invited too, but took sick and couldn't make it). Gallup insisted that he enjoyed living dangerously but "I'll never be happy until we've got this thing licked." Crossley concurred: "We are not here to praise the polls, but certainly not to bury them...
...people in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium last week really expected to see Navy (which hadn't won a game all season) beat Army (which hadn't lost all season). But the midshipmen, taking inspiration from another upset, ran up a sign saying "Gallup Picks Army" and another one saying "Harry Is On Our Side...
...Denver, a statewide poll run by Edward Whittlesey, an ex-Gallup student, and William McPhee, an alumnus of the University of Denver National Opinion Research Center, found last June that Truman would win Colorado, as he did. But they got worried when their results disagreed with Gallup's, so they jiggered them for publication in the Denver Post- to show a Dewey victory. Said McPhee: "Whittlesey and I are thinking of going out of business...
Last Straw? At week's end, the pollsters themselves were still trying to figure out how they had come such croppers. Roper, confessing that he "could not have been more wrong," asked a group of social scientists to check over all his pre-election data for clues. Gallup started to recheck his pre-election polls; his field workers were re-interviewing the same people to find out how they had actually voted...