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Needles in a Haystack. Last week, sitting in his Princeton, N.J. office, Dr. George Horace Gallup riffled contentedly through the answers. A big, friendly, teddybear of a man with a passion for facts & figures, Pollster Gallup has been finding needles in the U.S. haystack for the past twelve years. Other pollsters, like Elmo Roper and Archibald Crossley, have been doing it just as long. But George Gallup's four-a-week releases to 126 U.S. newspapers have made the "Gallup Poll" a household word and Gallup the Babe Ruth of the polling profession...
...women met at the well it was enough if one of them said: "Piers is at it again." Everybody knew Piers. Everybody knew whether the statement meant that Piers was experimenting with a new crop called "turnips," or giving money to the poor, or lying drunk in a haystack. The news at the well was not only intelligible, it was adequate...
Part of TIME'S $1.48 goes into a more or less clumsy effort to tell the reader what kind of guy Piers is, or why he tries to grow turnips or what are the chances that he'll set fire to the haystack and burn up his house, wife and children; in short, to tell, across the 20th Century community's backyards of specialization, complexity and confusion, what the news is, and to tell it in such a way that its hearer will take it in and be able...
TIME'S attempts to help the reader "see" the people who make the news has rarely, if ever, approached Carlyle's famous characterization of Robespierre, the "seagreen incorruptible." Gone are the days when TIME'S pages were exclusively inhabited by a jut-jawed, bucktoothed, moose-tall, haystack-haired race. "TIME style" served a purpose; it used a showman's trick to call attention to the fact that TIME had a style of editing and thinking, that TIME was not a jumble of "eye-terns," but an integrated report...
...Meringur, near the South Australian border, Farmer Charles Mangan reported the overnight disappearance of a haystack worth $600. An old Mallee pioneer, after placing his false teeth carefully by his bedside, awoke to find them on the floor of another room, mauled by the mice...