Word: deweyitis
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...voter opinion is much less certain and is affected by more intangibles. But to those who object to having their opinions computerized, the discomforting truth is that the major polls have been astonishingly accurate in predicting presidential elections ever since the miscalculations of the Harry Truman upset of Thomas Dewey in 1948. Since that time, however, the largest discrepancy between the final Gallup reading, for example, and a presidential-election result was the 4.4 points by which Gallup underestimated Dwight Eisenhower's voter popularity in 1952. After that, Gallup's biggest miss was the mere 2.7 points...
...since a crusading young attorney named Thomas E. Dewey was appointed special prosecutor in 1935 had there been such a dramatic move to fight crime in New York City. Acting on the recommendation of the Knapp Commission, which had spent a year and a half investigating corruption in the city police department, Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week announced the creation of a superprosecutor to ferret out misdeeds in all areas of the criminal justice system, including the police, judges, probation officers, bail bondsmen and prison authorities. Said Rocky: "It is absolutely unique...
Philadelphia. Just ten, he manifested an early maverick streak by differing with his father, a Missouri delegate who supported Wendell Willkie. Young Tom backed Thomas Dewey because, he says, "he had better buttons." As with the Kennedy clan, current events were the staple fare at the Eagleton dinner table, and it was not long before Tom was hooked on politics. "I became fascinated," he recalls. "The way other kids wanted to be farmers or firemen or cowboys, I wanted to be a politician...
Service. Elstein was born in 1948 -the year that Harry Truman, amid predictions of Democratic ruin, defeated Thomas E. Dewey. He hopes there will be parallels this year. The son of a retired high school history and economics teacher, Ken grew up politically aware, listening to dinner-table conversation in his parents' two-family house in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn. He played stickball, batted an even .000 (no hits in 14 at-bats) in his first year in the Little League. In 1968 he graduated from Harpur College, part of the State University of New York...
Both relays--the 440 and mile--appear to be tossups, although Harvard has posted the better sprint time, and Yale the better mile clocking. The Bulldogs have strength in the hurdles, and with Dewey Hickmar doubtful, are a threat to take 1-2. The Crimson will have to offset this point accumulation in the 100 and 220, where captain Bud Wilson, Austin O'Conner, and Baylee Reid must score. "The sprints" McCurdy said, "will be pivotal...