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...Congress debates the advisability of tripling the Naval Academy, the men now in training have dismissed every idea of making the Navy a career. ... In conducting a poll, I have found that out of 3,000 midshipmen at most 500 plan to accept commissions and stay in the Navy as career officers. The feeling is strongest in the upper classes, who unreservedly advise all underclassmen to resign now while there is yet time to return to colleges where they can learn...
Last week this old tongue twister, with new and even less intelligible lyrics, was the fast-climbing No. 2 seller in Billboard magazine's poll of record sales. It was well on its way to join Mairzy Boats and the Hut Sut Song in the jabberwocky Valhalla of the jukebox. Twenty-nine-year-old Ar kansas-born Jo Proffitt had changed the Chinaman into a chick, and called it Chickery Chick. She sent the lyrics to Tin Pan Alleysmith Sidney Lippman, who added some new notes. Now it describes a chicken who got bored with saying "chick chick...
...George Gallup found that 71% of the U.S. people oppose giving control of the bomb to the United Nations Organization. In the same poll, 65% were sure that the secret could not be kept and that other nations would soon have bombs of their...
...might be rushed through Congress while the nation was in a mood to clutch at any military straw. Now a new possibility appeared: would the nation reject the idea by default, without ever agreeing that it was either good or bad? At week's end an Associated Press poll of Senators showed 25 in favor of the plan, 19 opposed, 40 undecided and in no hurry to make up their minds...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who got an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Louvain, got top marks from Woman's Home Companion readers in a poll of the living Americans they most admired. Runners-up, in order: President Harry S. Truman, Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt, General Douglas MacArthur, ex-President Herbert Hoover and Motorman Henry Ford (tied for fifth place), ex-Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce, Crooner Bing Crosby and Comedian Bob Hope (also tied...