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...Memphis World (Negro daily) completed its poll to elect the "Mayor of Beale Street." Winner: Matthew Thornton, mail carrier, with 12,000 out of 33,000 votes cast. Runner-up: Eddie Hayes, undertaker, 9,000. Salary: none. Duties: greeting distinguished visitors to "the street where the blues began...
...sales boomed, and the grateful citizens of Crystal City, Texas, U.S. spinach-raising centre, put up a Popeye statue. Three years ago, when Segar's comic strip appeared in. over 500 newspapers in the U.S. and 20 foreign countries, Popeye nosed out Mickey Mouse in a nationwide poll as the most popular comic-strip character. Some of the strip's phrases which have passed into the language: "goon" (a homely person, or one with a hangover), "jeep" (a girl who demands an expensive good time), "I yam what...
...that devised by the Conway Committee for the Big Board, including paid president, public representation, democratic committee rule. This time SEC Chairman Douglas commented: "Forthright and realistic." Curb members, who are voting officially this week, showed their sentiments by accepting the plan 275-to-1 in a straw poll which was still incomplete at week...
...architects, each pair designed to meet the needs and income of an actual U. S. family. By this presentation LIFE hoped: 1) to inform its readers of how easily any family earning from $2,000 to $10,000 a year can build an efficient, pleasant home; 2) to poll its readers on the relative popularity of the two types of home building...
Hence, the trends indicated in the report released yesterday by Mr. Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics, cannot be but completely gratifying. The fact that a predominance of the undergraduate body placed athletics first among extra-curricular activities in the Crimson poll of last spring amply demonstrated the importance of House sports. The present report further points toward increasing importance. A tripling in the participation rate since class athletics gave way to House sports, a doubling of the available sports, an increase to 57 percent participation all are irrefutable indications...