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President Conant stands fair to be the GOP's dark horse presidential nominee for '52, according to a Gallup poll published in last week's Look. The 58-year-old University head placed fifth in the national survey. The poll assumed that Eisenhower would not accept the nomination...
Lesser guessers think that if Harry Truman decides not to run again, he will swing the Democratic nomination to his good friend United States Chief Justice Fred Vinson. If he did, the Gallup poll reported this week, today's voters would give Vinson more support (43%) than the Republicans' Taft...
Hollywood's troubled moviemakers shuddered again. According to figures reported by Pollster George Gallup, and confirmed by Paramount's own reading of the current box office, customers are going to the movies at the rate of only 53 million a week - more than a third off from 1946's weekly rate of 80 million. The five best draws last month, as they placed in Variety's survey of 24 key cities...
After a quick weed-out by a staff of professional readers, B-o-M's five judges ponder from twelve to 20 manuscripts a month (of the 275 or so to be published). Pollster George Gallup is a member of B-o-M's board of directors nowadays, conducts surveys after the books have been sent out to see "how the members liked them." But Founder Scherman sternly warns against the easy assumption that Dr. Gallup ("He knows more about advertising than any man in the U.S.") influences in any way the judges' choice...
Last week the President also: ¶ Heard, from a source that he does not usually credit, that his popularity is on the upswing again. After hitting a new low in June, he started a comeback with the Korean peace talks, the Gallup poll reported. But it still found only 29% of the people approving him. ¶ Succeeded in his first effort to end a strike through the Wage Stabilization Board. Nine hundred members of the United Steel Workers ( C.I.O.) voted to go back to work at the Garfield, Utah plant of the American Smelting and Refining Co., after the President...