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...agencies, the 'Gallop Poll' Foundation and the National Opinion Research Center of Chicago University, have recently conducted independent surveys all over the country," Stouffer explained. "Their findings not only correspond in general but were often almost identical...
...Brisk Gallop. What little novelty and brightness was around last week was again supplied by the dramatic shows. On CBS's Climax, William Faulkner's An Error in Chemistry journeyed to storied Yoknapatawpha County for a study of a carnival confidence man as casually evil as a rattlesnake. Edmond O'Brien played the role with a fine malevolence, although the mistake that finally trapped him was both too forced and too trifling to support an hour show. Kraft TV Theater ambitiously tried Camille on NBC and Kitty Foyle on ABC. Signe Hasso coughed and swooned appropriately...
...Robert Montgomery Presents, viewers were off on a brisk gallop with the gentry of Old England. Margaret Phillips played the haughty lady who falls in love with a young schoolteacher who knows his place but cannot keep it. There is a murder, and the young man will hang if the lady doesn't reveal that they spent the night in question together. Will she tell? Won't she? Since the story was by Britain's sardonic A. E. Coppard, the lady confesses, but the young man hangs anyway. Studio One, presenting The Deserter, had a fine opening...
...colorless, conscientious Guy Cordon, 64, discovered he was in a horse race, rode off to the hustings to deliver attacks on Republican-turned-Independent-Democrat Wayne Morse, his Senate colleague who backed Neuberger. Although Cordon's managers, unused to hard bush-beating, never got his campaign into full gallop, it seemed unlikely that a Republican would lose in Oregon...
Back in the barns, where the hockey players usually dress, the horses and their riders prance nervously about. "Steady, Atomic Action," says one cowpoke. The horse does not reply. Suddenly the signal is given for The Grand Entry and Introduction of Officials, and out into the Arena gallop hundreds and hundreds of horses and riders. Some horse and riders move as one unit, and some riders are glued into the saddle. All the flags of the old west gleam in bright pastels. Round and round the arena they go, criss-crossing and yelling and screaming. Unfortunately, one rider falls...