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...Though Harmon was the spectators' favorite, a nationwide poll of sportswriters voted Iowa's little Nile Clarke Kinnick the No. 1 player of the year. Grandson of onetime Governor George Clarke of Iowa, son of a onetime quarterback at Iowa State, and catcher for famed Bob Feller on a schoolboy baseball team in his hometown of Adel, Iowa, Halfback Kinnick, in an age when most footballers play only 30 minutes of a game, played the full 60 minutes in six tough games. His passing, punting, blocking, running sparked Iowa to win six of its eight games...
Radcliffe sentiment was proven to have shifted back this year to a true appreciation of Harvard men as "escorts," "lovers," and "paramours," when the results of a poll on the respective merits of the swains of the Big Three colleges and M.I.T. were released yesterday afternoon...
Third Term. The Gallup Poll showed a 2.2% decline in the President's popularity. But on the third term issue the FORTUNE Survey indicated the greatest shift of public opinion that it has recorded. In its December issue, FORTUNE revealed that 47.4% of the people favor a third term, an increase of 12.5% since the war began...
...enters the war, only 20% of young Catholics would volunteer, 44% submit to conscription, while 36% would conscientiously object. So suggested America (Jesuit weekly) on the basis of a poll of 54,000 students (both sexes) in 141 Catholic colleges and universities...
...cross section of University of Chicago students, participating in a campus magazine poll, yesterday voted in favor of the return of the Maroons to big-time football, but not at too much expense to the institution's scholastic standards...