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...want to talk to anybody alive or dead," declared talkative Bernard Shaw. It was half of his answer to Gallup pollsters asking Britons which of their famed countrymen (dead or alive) they most wanted to talk to. "If I craved for entertaining conversation by a first-class raconteur," Shaw went on, "I would choose Oscar Wilde."* In the poll, Shaw himself ranked 27th. Most-sought-after...
...McPherson's Son, Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time). Wouldn't it be wonderful, though, if you didn't have to take such chances? That was the line a man named Albert E. Sindlinger peddled to publishers. He had been a vice president of the Gallup poll organization and he thought he knew a little something about what the public wants. Every book a bestseller...
...Gallup poll, measuring the effect of Henry Wallace's candidacy on the popular vote this week, found it almost nil. The pollsters reported that, if the election were held now with Henry in the race, Harry Truman would beat Tom Dewey (46% to 41%) and would wallop Bob Taft (51% to 31%). They also reported that Ike Eisenhower, with no help from Henry, would defeat the President, 47% to 40%. (In none of the three trial heats did Wallace get more than 8% of the vote...
There was no longer any doubt that General Ike's candidacy was snowballing. This caused repercussions all around. Just as if he had known in advance of the Gallup trial heats, Governor Dewey decided that it was time to start running. He announced that he is an open candidate and prepared to do some real campaigning...
Brazilians are the world's most Godfearing people; Frenchmen the least. The U.S. has only a few more atheists and agnostics than Australia or Canada. These too-sweeping generalities might have been deduced last week from a Gallup poll...