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...equally-good trio of Eustis, Bensley, and Larsen. If high-jumpers Gene Harrigan and Mary Jenkins can stay up there with Jim Keyes. If Sam Felton can split Frank and Bowers in the discus. If Thayer, Kumple, and Carter can beat Yale's brilliant but erratic broad-jumper Nathan Bundy (he hit 23 feet, 6 inches last week against Princeton). If sore-armed Don Trimble can take at least one javelin throw to prevent the Elis from getting first and second in that event. If the sprinters can come through...
Twenty-one hundred miles away, in Chicago, a 20-year-old university student named Barry Nathan pinned on his Gallup Poll button and sallied forth. He concentrated on first-floor apartments ("it's harder for them to refuse") and people waiting in self-service laundries ("God's gift to the interviewer"). Unlike chatty Mrs. Kadlec, he invariably opened his interview with the approved Gallup introduction: "I'd like your opinion on a few leading topics...
...that he had heard from Mrs. Kadlec, Barry Nathan and the others, George Gallup was ready with another report on what the U.S. people thought about shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages & kings. He announced that 52% thought the U.S. should have daylight time only in summer; a solid 60% thought a Stalin-Truman meeting would be a good idea; 55% approved of military aid to China...
...Kinseys were through, said Capp, they had thrown out Oliver Twist, Alice in Wonderland, Shakespeare and everything but the phone book. Cracked Capp: "Mr. Brown is sorry that Li'I Abner isn't Huckleberry Finn. I'm sorry that Mr. Brown isn't George Jean Nathan...
...David A. Brockway, Alexander J. Calla, Frederick R. Coburn, James N. Douglass, Robert A. Feldman, Frederick M. Fialkow, Roy M. Goodman, William G. B. Graham, John T. Hazel, Arthur Dwight Hyde, Jr., George D. Jackson, Edward R. Kane, Kenneth Keniston, V. Bruce LaSala, William van H. Mason, David G. Nathan, A. Werner Pleus, Roger V. Pugh, Jr., John P. Rice, Jr., Henry M. Silviera, Jr., John Talbot, Jr., Robert E. Tomasello, B. David Waring, and Jeffrey Watkins...