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...quite potent. Asking a presidential candidate to run a campaign without a focus group is like asking a physician to reach a diagnosis without a stethoscope. Candidates should view a focus group as a simple tool, not a murky crystal ball requiring a wizard to decipher it. Gary Blackton Portland, Oregon, U.S. Klein argued that polling has become "less scientific and more speculative. It means polls should be trusted only to verify broad shifts ... rather than specific point spreads." Even this may be optimistic, since the flaws in polls may be systemic and not random. I would guess that poll...
...Fish, 78, sole survivor (Harvard, '10) of Walter Camp's alltime, all-America football team and a courtly, conservative blueblood who took frequent potshots at the New Deal as a third-generation, longtime (1920-1945) Congressman from F.D.R.'s own New York district; and Mrs. Marie Blackton, 56, descended from a patrician Russian military family; both for the second time; in an Episcopal ceremony in New York...
Died. James Stuart Blackton, 66, one of the first large-scale cinema producers; of auto-accident injuries; in Hollywood. With a partner he organized Vitagraph in 1897. The firm was sold to Warners in 1925 for a reported $1,000,000. Blackton went on relief...
...highways to make it easier for them to travel in the State, and we are spending $100,000 for advertising, part of it in TIME, to invite them here. We shall appreciate it if you will give this letter the same publicity you gave that of Salesman James Blackton...
Although truck drivers covering several States are usually intelligent enough to inquire about local regulations, we have today ordered large signs erected at points where major highways cross the State line for the future guidance of drivers of commercial vehicles who, like Salesman Blackton, may otherwise wish to plead ignorance...