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...article on double-header movies, p. 28 of TIME, Oct. 18, you fail to mention one all-important detail of Fanchon & Marco's St. Louis poll. Were the audiences polled attending doubleheaders? If so, the fact that there was a 7-to-3 preference for double-features is of little significance-beyond indicating how much the 3-group will take to see the movie it wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...point is, one does not take a wet-dry poll in a saloon. Asking double-header patrons if they like doubleheaders amounts to the same thing. In both cases, the sample is biased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...second poll in France's nationwide election for municipal councilors (TIME, Oct. 18), confirmed last week the first results tabulated fortnight ago, proved two things: 1) the Radical Socialist Party of Premier Camille Chautemps. a party which is not radical but studiously middleclass, still polls more votes in local elections than any other; 2) the Socialist Party of Vice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pause Wins | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...their nation-wide bargaining agency, opened the way for immediate negotiations between U. P. management and Guild authorities, who seek to cut the U. P. work week to five days and make other changes in U. P. employment conditions. Although the Guild demanded a National Labor Relations Board poll in May, delay followed a U. P. challenge that all bureau managers, even those with only one assistant, were executives and ineligible to vote. While the N.L.R.B. held hearings which decided this point in U. P.'s favor, the nimble Guild made valuable use of the delay with systematic, successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Victory & Defeat | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Harvard is tied for third in the favor of Princeton Freshmen as far as outside colleges are concerned. Reports state that in the annual poll of the class Yale ranked tops with 30 votes, Williams had 50, and Dartmouth, Harvard and Vassar scored 30 each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jibe From Old Nassau | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

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