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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...
...other hand, Dr. George Gallup's pollsters by last week had piled up evidence in State after State of a steady decline in the Democratic fortunes, a decline so profound as to give every prospect of a clear Republican victory in November. The shift toward the G. O. P. was now so marked that nothing short of a Rooseveltian miracle, it appeared to poll-parrots, could save the election for the Democrats...
Studying these reports, and noting nothing in any major Republican candidate that could be construed as New Dealism, observers wondered whether it was Professor Schlesinger who was moonstruck, or Dr. Gallup...
...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...