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Like G.I. Joe. At home the women in Hobby's army had turned in an equally good record. The Army had anticipated emotional outbursts, resentment at having to take orders, squawks about living in barracks, feuds and cliques and general troubles with the unpredictable (to men) nature of women...
Nationwide public-opinion polls (the Gallup poll, FORTUNE Survey, etc.) are plentiful. But until last week there has never been a poll limited by state boundaries. Then the Des Moines Register and Tribune started one, on the eve of a Presidential election year. Said the Register and Tribune's...
Home Front. In Des Moines, Kenneth Sonderleiter, proprietor of a lunch stand and a zoo, unable to get materials to build a winter house for his two lions, announced that his menus would soon offer lionburgers. In Manhattan, OPA went into action against a coal dealer whose fuel, added to...
Students and Secrets. Lawson is not going around worrying his busy head about students for his Des Moines university. If no others show up, he figures on drawing from the 100,000 officers of the Benefactor Foundation. Foundation board members, incidentally, are secret. Explains Lawson: they often shift. Apparently Lawson...
As for the Foundation and what keeps it ticking, Lawson says it is a nonprofit organization which gets its funds by selling his lucubrations. Improbable as that may seem, the Direct Credits Society's rating is no joke to Dun & Bradstreet. On that score at least, Des Moines had...