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...sound the opinion of the class as to a permanent system of reviews in courses not handled already by the big departments, the Committee plans to conduct a poll. If the result is favorable, it intends to leave the Class of 1941 a satisfactory arrangement for giving reviews in such courses as Biology D, Physics C, and Philosophy...
Phooey, Scallions, and Fishcakes on your most lousy choice of a "person-of-the-year." The Digest poll and Mrs. Simpson leave the same taste in my mouth. To your editors (note the votes cast) a big and mighty Bronx cheer...
...amateur and as a man has done most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship." There is no particular reason why these conditions should be fulfilled any better by a decathloner than by a foot-racer, polo player or yachtsman. Nonetheless, the sports experts whose poll decides the Sullivan award have come to regard it as a rare chance to make amends to decathloners for the neglect with which they are usually treated. The Sullivan award was inaugurated by the Amateur Athletic Union in 1930. Decathloner Barney Berlinger won it in 1931. Decathloner Jim Bausch...
...candidates proposed by readers for TIME'S Man of the Year, the three who easily outstripped all the rest were the Duke of Windsor (172), President Roosevelt (113), Mrs. Simpson (86). Considered as two characters in the same news story, the Simpson-Windsor poll of 258 was greater than all other votes combined. To the 505 readers who voted, TIME'S thanks for their enthusiasm. As stated Nov. 30, final decision on who will occupy TIME'S first 1937 cover must rest with the Editors...
...readers' poll nominating TIME'S Man of the Year entered its last week, far out in front of a field of 51 were President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Duke of Windsor, Mrs. Simpson...