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Yesterday's victory over Adams came in the tenth inning, by a 9 to 8 margin. Long George Beckmann pitched both games for Dunster. Clark Carnaby was on the mound for Company D, while Hugh Wheelwright worked for the Gold Coasters...
...after eliminating "about one in ten" who were undecided. In this question voters were asked to assume that the war would still be on. But when Gallup asked voters whom they would vote for if the war were over by election time, Dewey led Roosevelt by a wide margin: 58%-to-42%, after eliminating the undecided. FORTUNE'S most closely comparable question shows a near-standoff: 44% for Roosevelt, 43.5% for the "best Republican." But FORTUNE'S question had the proviso "if the war, is over but the peace terms not settled." By so much...
...gave them another example of his style: a close-up of the U.S. "Ace of Aces"-stocky, 23-year-old Major Richard Ira Bong (TIME, April 24). Correspondent Kluckhohn doubtless meant his story to be warm, sympathetic, Ernie Pyle-like. If so, he missed his target by a wide margin. Wrote...
...Wall Street lawyer who served three terms in the House before World War I, polled more votes than Tammany's candidate, James H. Torrens, 69, received on the Democratic ballot. The 3.226 votes that Torrens got on the leftist American Labor Party's ticket were the margin of his victory. Even more important, Republican Bennet won the only two sections that lie wholly in Harlem...
...breakdown of the figures reveals that the Navy won all eight of the boxing bouts, gained a 46 to 20 margin in the swimming meet, and captured the basketball title 48 to 30. The Army was triumphant in wrestling, four matches to three...