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...been alone. A wartime schizophrenia has touched all U.S. magazines trading in fiction and frills. And last week, in the April Harper's, Poet-Anthologist Oscar Williams culled from his correspondence with poets a summary of the wartime writer's dilemma-"a kind of Gallup poll of the soul." No writer was particularly happy in his work. Samples of unease...
Edwin J. Cohn, professor of Biological Chemistry, has been picked by a poll of reading medical scientists throughout the country as the first winner of the Passano Foundation Award for his outstanding achievements in the field of blood extractionation...
...spring and, as usual, the fancy of John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers had lightly turned to thoughts of strikes. Complying with the terms of the Smith-Connally Act, they formally announced their intention. That meant that the U.S. Government would have to poll 400,000 miners in 3,000-odd voting booths to find out whether they did or did not want to strike...
...poll was conducted to determine which of eight fundamental causes for homicide, all condoned by the law, would be most likely to arouse in the students the urge to kill. After self-defense the students listed defense of family, defense of country, and defense of another human, as the most compelling motives for manslaughter...
...belligerent attitude reflects the trend which first became evident among students after the entrance of the United States into the war. Before December 1941, student opinion was strongly pacifistic, manifesting itself in many movements designed to prevent U. S. participation in the war. This pacifism was reflected in the poll as patriotism was rated as only the sixth most compelling homicidal motive. Undoubtedly, this reflects the troubled state of the students, many of whom are approaching military age, and who expect to enter into the armed forces within the next year...