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Pollsters got busy on Britain's general election. The British Gallup Poll began sampling early last month. Chief (arid purely hypothetical) question: "If Liberals, Labor, Common Wealth, Independent Labor Party and the Communist Party united as a Popular Front against the Conservatives at the next general election . . . which would you be most likely to vote for, the Popular Front candidate or the Conservative...
Just Desserts. In Gallup, N.Mex., a beribboned G.I., just back from three years in a Jap prison camp, was served a dish of rice pudding in a restaurant...
...Yorker has not been alone. A wartime schizophrenia has touched all U.S. magazines trading in fiction and frills. And last week, in the April Harper's, Poet-Anthologist Oscar Williams culled from his correspondence with poets a summary of the wartime writer's dilemma-"a kind of Gallup poll of the soul." No writer was particularly happy in his work. Samples of unease...
...American Cancer Society prepared to launch its drive to raise $5,000,000 for education, research and care of advanced cancer cases, a Gallup poll revealed that one U.S. citizen in five still thinks cancer is contagious, that one in four still thinks it is incurable, that fewer than half know any of its early symptoms. The nation's second worst killer (after heart ailments), cancer will kill about 175,000 citizens this year. Ignorance of early symptoms and of how cancer can often be cured, resulting in delay of treatment, is responsible for 30% to 50% of cancer...
Abraham Lincoln scored an almost 2-to-1 victory over George Washington (except in the solid South) in a nationwide Gallup poll to determine who is now considered the "greater...