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Pollster George Gallup, who covers the public opinion beat for 122 newspapers,* had a hot pre-convention argument last week. His opponent was Charles Michelson, former Democratic publicity chief. Their dispute was over the value of polls...
White-haired Mr. Michelson singled out Dr. Gallup's poll, which reported that 61% of the U.S. people thought that the Government erred in taking over Montgomery Ward. Wrote Michelson (for North American Newspaper Alliance): "As there are involved knotty questions over which the lawyers will be wrangling clear up to the Supreme Court, the acquirement of so definite a result comes near to being miraculous. Incidentally, isn't there a question of whether this does not come close to things the courts could hardly permit...
...Italian salami). The City Center's Carmen featured one of the best Carmens in a decade: dusky Jennie Tourel. Daughter of a traveling Russian fur merchant, Jennie Tourel, once a prima donna of the Paris Opera-Comique, now lives with her Latvian artist husband, Leo Michelson, in a four-room Manhattan apartment. Her Carmen (a role she claims to have sung about 200 times) was full of Gallic spice and neat as a championship billiard game. The City Center's Martha, a bid to the Broadway trade, looked and sounded more like musical comedy than opera...
...Party has ever had. With malicious whoops, critics have called him: 1) "the soft underbelly of the Republican Party;" 2) a spokesman who tries to put both feet into his mouth simultaneously; 3) a fictional character invented by the New Deal's foxy old pressagent, Charlie Michelson...
Republicans got in the smack, and it was a beauty, reminding bystanders of nothing less than the 1932-1936 Democratic efforts of wily Charley Michelson, the Old Master, who had a knack of making the Republicans look like stumblebums. Replying to Democratic National Chairman Frank Walker's suggestion that the 1944 campaign be held late, G.O.P. Chairman Harrison Spangler wrote: "We are willing to accept your plan for a short campaign ... if you can and will give assurance that Mr. Roosevelt does not have the ambition for and will not accept nomination for a fourth term. ... If you find...