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...tired of hearing about it; 2) a record as a politician based on the narrow margin (about 64,000 votes) by which he was defeated for the Governorship of New York in 1938; 3) a favorite's position as voters' preconvention choice-56%, according to the Gallup poll-in the race for the Republican nomination. And before him, besides the Western ranges, lay a series of talks in Helena, Spokane, Portland, Salt Lake, Boise, 20-odd weeks before the Republican convention would meet in Philadelphia (see p. 17), and a chance to preach the doctrine of future growth...
Notes between the notes: The All-Star record that Metronome Magazine in conjunction with Columbia Record Corp. is putting out next week will be very interesting from many standpoints. Besides having the winners of Metronome's Band Poll playing in one band, it will settle the argument about Gene Krupa's drumming. When Krupa left Goodman, he was a brilliant show-off--and therefore a lousy band drummer. Since then, all the critics that have given his band any attention at all have agreed that Gene has changed into one of the most unostentatious and best band drummers around. Since...
...poll was conceived by Donald MacD. D. Thurber '40, who is acting under the direction of John L. Donnell '40, chairman of the Album Committee. Thurber describes the survey as an attempt to learn the Class's "mental, social, and cultural orientation." It will be tabulated on a special machine in University Hall...
...culture are quotations from Walt Whitman and an album of U. S. folkways, covering U. S. unions, U. S. salesmen, the 30,000 U. S. industrial managers and the 32,000.000 U. S. farmers. In other articles, FORTUNE covers U. S. opinion in a survey, conducted by Poll Taker Elmo Roper, that measures U. S. opinion about itself...
...immensity of U. S. wealth, the extent of U. S. poverty, FORTUNE makes as strong an affirmative statement with the photographs that illuminate U. S. life. as with the statistics that dramatize U. S. industrial growth, gives figures for future growth to justify the basic optimism that poll takers found when they asked their questions. In no field scrutinized could FORTUNE find that U. S. greatness lay in its past rather than its future, nor could it find one belief, one condition, one policy, the key to U. S. strength. "In spite of all lacks and unfavorable comparisons...