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...appeared regularly in TIME (at first, twice, then three times a year) since the issue of March 11, 1935. The original test was modeled after a similar one prepared for the American Council on Education by Dr. Alvin C. Eurich, now vice president of Stanford University, and Elmo C. Wilson, now research director of the Columbia Broadcasting System. They became the mentors of TIME'S Current Affairs Test, and they still are-aided and abetted by TIME'S editorial and education staffs...
...youthful Harris Wofford Jr., founder of Student Federalists (the junior branch of Federal Union). Sparkplug of the eight full-time staffers, all under 30, is energetic Managing Editor Helen B. Hamer, alumna of Manhattan's Greenwich Villager and Science Illustrated. The "panel of contributors" includes Wickham Steed, Elmo Roper, Pertinax, Magyar Cartoonists Derso & Kelen...
...Elmo B. Taylor...
...course, had brought a great many readers of our overseas editions home from the battlefronts, and so we thought that perhaps returned veterans were largely responsible for the increase. We decided to research the question. Louisville, Ky. was chosen as the test city, and the independent research firm of Elmo Roper went to work for us there, assigning interviewers to question TIME buyers at newsstands all over town...
That the world's peoples still have a lot to learn about each other was apparent last week to any newspaper reader. Summarizing the results of surveys in recent years in the comparatively well-informed U.S., Pollster Elmo Roper concluded, in the New York Herald Tribune, that many U.S. citizens were appallingly uninformed even about their closest Allies. Samples of ignorance...