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...ballots accepted, one third contained write-in comments. Thirty percent of classifiable comments asked for abolition of the Council, and another 22 percent "stated disapproval of (its) present policy, personnel, or practices...
Abolitionist spokesman Merrill O. Young '51 last night claimed that "the large number of write-in votes for abolition despite the Council's deliberate avoidance of the distasteful question," requires the Council "to include abolition as an alternative in the forthcoming revision' referendum...
...voice and brain are supplied by a fretful, 32-year-old disc jockey named Bob Smith, who conceived Howdy three years ago on a daytime radio show. Transplanted to TV, the puppet flourished so sensationally that, in 1948, Howdy ("The only candidate made completely of wood") claimed more write-in votes for U.S. President-than Henry Wallace. "It's been a hard job," says Smith. "We have to bend over backwards not to antagonize parents. One woman wrote us asking why Howdy always blinks his eyes when he talks. She said, 'Now my son goes around...
...almost unanimous write-in vote for the outstanding "noncommercial" personality: Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...face. Communist Party workers got out the vote, all right, but the vote was heavily antiCommunist. The Communist press had predicted an overwhelming victory, obviously expecting the customary Red majority of 90-plus percent. The Russians resorted to their usual poll shenanigans; e.g., they counted as "yes" votes all write-in ballots with remarks like "No more concentration camps!" and "Liberty!" Nevertheless, after mulling the returns over for two days, the Russians finally brought themselves to announce that more than 30% of the voters had said "no" to the Communist People's Congress...