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Into last week's chorus of heady news from Europe and hopeful words from San Francisco came a thin, somber note from U.S. public opinion. It came from a cross-section of adult civilians buttonholed by the University of Denver's National Opinion Research Center. The poll question: do you expect the U.S. to get in another war within the next 25 years...
Major General Manton S. Eddy, who takes a fatherly interest in his men, found time to wonder. Interested by a TIME report (Feb. 26) on how wives back home were meeting the test of war, General Eddy suggested taking a poll of officers and men in his XII Corps, which is part of Patton's Third Army...
These answers, according to General Eddy's poll, suit their husbands fine. A modest sampling of some 100 soldier-husbands in Eddy's corps showed that they were looking forward to exactly the same things...
Last week, in a significant decision, the Supreme Court agreed to take up the South's case against the railroads. Spokesman for the South is Georgia's New Dealing Governor Ellis Arnall. Peppery, young (38) Governor Arnall has already killed the poll-tax law in Georgia, rewritten the State's Constitution, cut the debt way down. Last June he set out after the biggest game of all. In a suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and 19 other carriers Governor Arnall charged that the railroads and some 60 other rate-makers have violated antitrust laws, discriminated against...
...American Cancer Society prepared to launch its drive to raise $5,000,000 for education, research and care of advanced cancer cases, a Gallup poll revealed that one U.S. citizen in five still thinks cancer is contagious, that one in four still thinks it is incurable, that fewer than half know any of its early symptoms. The nation's second worst killer (after heart ailments), cancer will kill about 175,000 citizens this year. Ignorance of early symptoms and of how cancer can often be cured, resulting in delay of treatment, is responsible for 30% to 50% of cancer...