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...enticing little figurines who ever shook a ruffle, have been upping box office and blood pressure in night clubs and ballrooms from London to San Francisco. Last week at a huge twelve-hour ball, they walked off with the most coveted prize in U.S. Latin American entertainment: the popularity poll conducted by Manhattan's Spanish-language daily La Prensa...
...much the President could help Guy Gillette was problematical. A recent Des Moines Register and Tribune poll indicated that, if the election were held now, Guy Gillette would be swamped by 220,000 by Iowa's vote-getting Gov. Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper. But the President is straining hard to have a united Democratic Party, apparently behind himself...
Lieut. Commander Harold Stassen, also in the South Pacific, was certain to win this week's Nebraska primary (a secret, unpublished poll indicated that he would have beaten Wendell Willkie 3-to-2 anyway). This meant little. The chief Stassen supporter in Nebraska had announced: "A vote for Stassen is a vote for Dewey." But the Stassenmen's eyes were not necessarily glued only...
...Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina, Arkansas " and Georgia. During the past 17 years, usually with prodding by the N.A.A.C.P., the U.S. Supreme Court has passed on four cases designed to abolish "white supremacy" in Southern voting. Three times the determined South has been able to retain its white poll supremacy. In last week's ruling, the fourth, the Court said: Dr. Lonnie E. Smith, Negro dentist of Houston, must be allowed to vote in Texas' Democratic primaries. Hastily, the South's best legal minds went to work with the frank, unabashed intention of getting around...
...people. For soon the whole U.S. will have to listen to about as much Southern oratory on the race question as anyone can reasonably endure. For of all things, the first item of business scheduled to come up before the returning Congress is the Marcantonio anti-poll-tax bill...