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...Willkie story . . . [is] one of the finest pieces of journalistic reporting and writing in many a deadline and, mark my margin, when the prizes are awarded it'll score damn high, widely, handsomely...
...Mark My Margin...
...George Gallup (Institute of Public Opinion) last week found a ½% increase in Willkie's popular vote (to 45.5%), an increase of four in electoral votes (to 121), 7% of the voters still undecided. But ten key Roosevelt States were well within the poll's 4% margin of error, and the trend to Willkie had not been stopped. Preparing for the worst, Gallup confessed: ". . . There are . . . factors . . . which cannot be measured by scientific methods...
...three touchdowns came on long runs. Weishelt galloped 60 yards for the Tigers' initial tally, and his teammate, Midgely, dashed over from the Crimson 35 yard stripe. Both conversions failed but the Orange and Black picked up a two point margin of safety when Guy Meli was downed behind his own goal line in the final quarter...
...Hoosier utility man led F.D.R. 113 to 81 in Lowell House and 103 to 79 in Eliot, but the President held a narrow four-vote margin in Kirkland, 81 to 77. Norman Thomas ran a consistently poor third, while Langdon P. Marvin Jr. '41 found himself the choice of one enthusiastic Deacon and an optimistic Bunny...