Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gallup poll, released this week, asked: "If Eisenhower's doctors say it is all right, and he decides to run in 1956, would you vote for him?" The results: 56%* said they would vote for the President, 31% said they would not, and 13% were undecided...
Reading the poll, Goodie Knight announced in New York, where he was on a junket, that for President he would support 1) President Eisenhower if he decided to run again, 2) himself, as favorite-son candidate, if he does not, 3) Dick Nixon if Nixon wins Ike's nod and the G.O.P. nomination...
Even the Church of England, whose canons against marriage after divorce form the sternest deterrent, was split on the matter. A newspaper poll of 100 Anglican clergymen revealed that 85 would refuse to officiate at the proposed marriage, 13 would be willing to marry the pair, two were undecided. One outspoken churchman, Canon Charles Kirkland of Canterbury, told an audience of mothers last week that the Princess "contemplates doing something which is deliberately an affront both to religion and the church." Some other Anglican churchmen were quick to condemn these words as "cruel and unjust...
Backpats were traded on a Hollywood set by Academy Award-winning Cinemactress Grace (The Country Girl) Kelly and jut-jawed Cinemactor Glenn (The Blackboard Jungle) Ford, just visiting. Both have been nominated for top acting honors in the first annual Audience Awards poll, whipped up by the Council of Motion Picture Organizations to give U.S. moviegoers a chance to name their own favorites. Votes will be cast in the nation's theaters the latter half of next month...
...their most challenging assignment yet: a wide-ranging report on life in Russia and Communist China. At week's end, Max put the Cossets on a plane for Moscow, first stop on their trip to gather material for the report and try to take a comprehensive public-opinion poll behind the Iron and Bamboo Curtains...