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...deep in the public mind since 1948-and as deeply burning to the "scientific" pollsters and to newsmen-was the much-printed picture of beaming, victorious Harry Truman holding up a copy of the Chicago Tribune headlined DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. The fire had been lighted by Pollsters George Gallup, Elmo Roper, et al., who had miscalled the 1948 election. The public remembered 1948, and so did the pollsters. In 1952, though they detected the Ikeward lean with impressive accuracy, they carefully hedged their final figures with large percentages of undecided voters and other forms of insurance...
...Sports Page. Taking the offensive, District Attorney Langley called a grand jury investigation into Portland rackets. The first to be served with subpoenas were Reporters Turner and Lambert and the Oregonian's Editor Herbert Lundy. Before they could be called, Oregon Governor Elmo Smith summarily took the investigation out of Langley's hands and put Attorney General Robert Thornton and the state police in charge...
...News in Pictures about "Tireless Estes Kefauver: Campaigner on the Road" depicts a man who is common. If he were elected President, he would be for the masses and not for the favored few. The results of the Minnesota primary show he is the choice of millions of voters. ELMO MENETRE Oklahoma City
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Died. Claude Ernest Hooper, 56, one of the best known (with George Gallup and Elmo Roper) of U.S. public pulse-takers, originator (in 1934) of the Hooper ratings for radio and television, one of the most respected audience barometers in the business; in a boating accident; on Utah's Great Salt Lake...