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...poll by the U.S. Army's Information and Education Division showed that few G.I.s in Germany were spending much time hating their former enemies. Some 34% of the newly arrived occupiers had a good word for the "Krauts"; 59% of those who had been there two months or longer thought they were O.K. When asked whom they liked best-Britons, Frenchmen or Germans-about half voted for the British, only 16% for the French; 23% favored the Germans. They found the Germans clean, friendly, and generally "like...
...After long meditation, cogitation and rumination, I have definitely made up my mind to run for re-election [to a third term]. ... I am ready to wage the most strenuous fight of my life in an effort to defeat the Fair Employment Practices Commission, the anti-poll tax bill, the anti-lynching bill and the $4 billion loan to England...
...enough to eat? Yes-according to a scientific definition of "enough." But the common man's stomach rumbles a frequent dissent. The British diet may be adequate, but the drab, monotonous stuff that Britons have been eating for six years leaves half of them (according to a Gallup poll) feeling underfed...
Year's lowest 18-hole stroke average: Byron Nelson's 68.33, good for 19 pro golf tourney wins and an unprecedented $66,600 in war-bond prizes (an A.P. poll named him "athlete of the year" over the Army's Fullback Doc Blanchard and Detroit's 25-game-winning Pitcher Hal Newhouser...
...ease the brooders' minds once & for all, Captain Lowell T. Coggeshall, tropical disease expert of the University of Michigan, took a poll of mumu convalescents at an Army hospital near Klamath Falls, Ore. His finding, reported without comment in California and Western Medicine: mumu men have fathered twice as many babies as wormless veterans...