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¶ Too many soap operas glut the daytime hours. The two largest networks, NBC and CBS, carry some 40 between them. Once, in 1940, 55 of the 59½ daytime hours a week were filled with twittering throbbers. Polling U.S. homes, FCC found that during soap-opera hours 76.8% of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Worst | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

About 85% of the zone's eligible citizens queued up at the polls. But the heavy turnout was not all due to sudden democratic zest. Said Bürger Nikolaus Menge of Bad Sooden: "I'm voting today because it will please you Americans. . . ." Said Bürger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Road Back | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

On frequent occasions, Canadians damn him roundly, call him timid and dull, scoff at him, invent bad jokes about him. But on polling day they vote for him. They feel he is good for Canada. Said one Ontario capitalist just before last June's elections: "If you had a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Preventive Medicine | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

Polling 621 Dartmouth students on the misleading question, "Do you favor the discarding of the course 'elective system' such as has been announced by Harvard?," the Dartmouth Log, official college and V-12 weekly at Hanover during the wartime demise of the Dartmouth Indian, found last month that 98 per...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH LOG POLLS BONER ON "GENERAL EDUCATION" DISCUSSION | 9/28/1945 | See Source »

Traditionally, the Government party stalwarts get control of the polling places, count the ballots. If something should go wrong at a precinct, the mistake may be righted in the Chamber of Deputies, whose 144 members (all but three of whom belong to the P.R.M.) make the final check on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: On the Mark | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

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