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...paragraph at the top of the ballot, which will appear in the registration envelopes of all returning members of '46, states: "Unlike past polls this one is primarily serious. Since the poll is completely anonymous, frank answers to frank questions are expected. However, if you think we have no business asking you certain questions, you have a perfect right to ignore them...
...paragraph of your very sympathetic article on "The Promised Land" in your Aug. 26, 1946 issue, you state that "Jews, wherever they were, dreamed wistfully of a return to Palestine...
...Gladys Glad was fodder for the most sentimental Hellinger copy. Married in 1929, they were divorced three years later. In his New York Mirror column Hellinger unabashedly sampled public reaction to the divorce. After imaginary interviews with a Wall Street clerk, a taxi driver, a socialite, etc., his final paragraph was the "Reaction of the Columnist, deep down in his heart: 'It's going to be awfully tough without you, baby. Awfully, awfully tough...
Sputtered LaGuardia: "Have you read this paragraph? . . . Do you know what it means? Do you get that 'or not'? . . . It is intentional; it is vicious; it is malicious. Why, I ask you in the name of decency and humanity, did you put it in? Is it the [U.S.] Army? If it is the Army, come on, let us speak up. Let us say that we are going to throw [the D.P.s] to the brasshats. The program of the Army is to throw these people loose on the German economy. You know what that means...
Collier's readers last week were given a pair of rosy-hued glasses through which to goggle at the progress and percentages of Boston's "Our Jim" Curley. But the tint wasn't applied heavily enough for one paragraph of Curleyana: that color should have been CRIMSON...