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...Composer Poll...
...TIME, May 17, you printed the findings of Stanford University's Paul Randolph Farnsworth in a poll taken among the students of that university, putting before them the question: "Who, named in order, are the greatest composers in the history of music?" This week I put the same question before 500 students of the University of Washington; here is the result...
...young sailor home from two years of active service sat listening in the gallery. All day long, like steam from a kettle, coils of debate had risen endlessly from the floor of the House of Representatives. The House was now preparing to vote on the same anti-poll tax bill that had been filibustered to death by a group of Southern Senators at the close of the 77th Congress (TIME...
Signalman Jones had made the best speech in favor of the bill. It finally passed, 265-to-110. But the bill's chances of becoming law are poor. It may never be reported out of the Senate's Judiciary Committee. And the same Senate poll-taxers still stand ready to talk it to death as they did last year. The stellar role will probably fall to Mississippi's bantam, big-eared, bombast-loving Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. Last week he promised to filibuster the bill for 18 months...
...British Gallup Poll last week asked the British public: "In your opinion which country has so far made the greatest contribution toward winning the war-Russia, Britain, the United States or China?" The vote: Russia, 50%; Britain, 42%; China, 5%; U.S., 3%. This vote underlined two facts of which many a U.S. citizen is still ignorant or only vaguely aware: 1 ) Britain feels a very deep gratitude toward Russia; 2) Britain is completely unsentimental about...