Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad shoulders and a wide-lipped Irish face and a slight trace of brogue. He is humorless; shy around women, but an easy mixer among men. He neither smokes nor drinks, wears ill-fitting blue suits and policemen's box-toed shoes. His health is good. Said a friend: "He lives, eats, drinks, sleeps and dreams politics...
Born to Poll. The methods which George Gallup uses are as old as those used by grain samplers, cotton testers or tea tasters. Gallup's contribution has been to apply those methods commercially to everything and anything in the world. A friend has said of him: "He wishes he had invented the ruler. Since someone beat him to it, Gallup has spent his life thinking up new ways to use it." It is almost true to say that George Gallup was born to be a pollster...
Facts & Good Sense. At 46, Gallup is still the rumpled, well-fed Iowa boy who first came east to make his fortune. Tweedy, balding, good-humored, unhurried, he talks earnestly in a deep, Midwestern voice, addresses everyone indiscriminately as "my friend." A hard worker, he hates detail, refuses to read memos and rarely answers letters. He is a tablecloth sketcher. He is so absent minded that before he leaves for an appointment his secretary gives him a neat card telling him where & when to go and how to get there...
...whom Picasso sent that note (in 1936) lost no sleep over it. Jaime Sabartés, devoted as a friend, and fairly humble as a secretary to Picasso, knew that Pablo didn't really mean it, though he may have thought he did. Picasso was apt to do things like that in one of his blue periods...
...also likes children's programs on television. A friend recently caught him watching Du Mont's program "Small Fry Club," asked him, "What are you watching, Maestro?" Toscanini replied, never taking his eyes from the screen: "Fry Small." Last month, when NBC first televised his concert, the Maestro watched the audience and musicians on a set in his dressing room until it was time...