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...form of two characters he plays: Mrs. Edna Everage, a dogmatic, middle-aged Melbourne lady who wears bizarre hats and white gloves, and is wild about the Queen, gladioli and ex-Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies; and Sandy Stone, a middle-aged husband addicted to the Reader's Digest, radio serials and budgerigars...
...sampling the tastes of his customers. He co-founded a New York market-research firm in 1933 and then became the first pollster to adapt scientific sampling techniques in forecasting an election; he predicted F.D.R.'s 1936 plurality within one percentage point of the popular vote. The Literary Digest-then the big gun of polling-picked Alf Landon as the winner. Though he conducted polls for FORTUNE and commented on public opinion in a syndicated newspaper column. Roper inveighed against "that new breed of animal-the poll-itician...
WHEN first I packed my grandmother's trunk to take to Radcliffe College, in it I put my A's from high school, my virginity, my square man who wouldn't screw, the articles my grandmother cut out of Reader's Digest, tears that came and wouldn't go for days on end, the parents I never had, and my black patent pocket book and patent heels with a black patent belt to match the heels and the pocket book. This three-piece patent suit I had bought at Saks Fifth Avenue for the history teacher I would adore...
...sure they found her, her A's under one arm, the Reader's Digest article under the other arm, a persistent virginity between her two children and her two legs, her black patent size seven heels on her two feet, and her father's death through her heart...
There will probably never be a more thorough, minute-by-minute account than Michener's of the three days of disorder that preceded the shooting. Michener drew on the determined legwork of two professional journalists from the Reader's Digest and twelve young reporters from local newspapers and the Kent School of Journalism. He also spent three months in Kent himself, at first sitting anonymously in bars on Water Street to get the feel of things, later operating out of a motel, where anyone with something to reveal knew where to find him. (Some students and academics would...