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Like an early swallow ushering in a new season, the first Gallup poll of the 1956 presidential campaign last week fixed the starting positions as well as they will ever be fixed. After asking voters across the U.S. which ticket they would now like to see win, Pollster George Gallup announced these results...
...Maine's Bowdoin, went on to take an Sc.D. from Harvard and to join the zoology department of the Indiana University. After he founded his Institute for Sex Research in 1947, Kinsey and a specially trained staff of psychologists, sociologists, lawyers and statisticians launched a kind of super Gallup poll of America's sex life. Some of the results sounded sensational. According to Kinsey's figures, nearly half of the American men had homosexual experiences "at one time or another," nearly half of the married men committed adultery, 25% of the married women found their sex life...
...last moments, can soar through and above the electronic gadgets, the political gimmicks and the leaden harmony. They need a man who can revive the party's fighting spirit and send the delegates away from the convention believing that their party will win against all of Dr. Gallup's odds.* They have picked Harry Truman...
...Pool Director Bob Doyle (NBC) will call the shots, decide which of the images from scores of cameras will go inside the nation's homes, offices and bars. Between acts the spotlight will fall on the sideshows: Will Rogers Jr., Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, George Gallup, Dave Garroway et al. Walt Kelly's Pogo, campaigning for President (on NBC) with "four buckets of cigar smoke," hopes to "lull the regular parties into a false sense of security by repeated attempts to clarify the issues...
With his market-research business going at a brisk clip, Gilbert decided to step up to a Gallup, canvassing the blue-jeans set for its views on politics, manners, smoking, necking, military service, family quarrels, juvenile delinquency. In his newspaper debut, Gilbert reported on a political survey: "If today's teen-agers could vote next November, they would favor Eisenhower over Stevenson by more than 2 to 1." Forthcoming findings...