Word: roper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is George Gallup's report that Lyndon Johnson is running ahead of Barry Goldwater 65% to 29% nationwide, with 6% undecided. Elmo Roper estimates that Lyndon is running ahead 56% to 26%, with the rest undecided. Oliver Quayle, a former associate of Lou Harris, shows Lyndon running ahead of Barry by 70% to 12% in Maine. A New York poll gives him 69% of the votes, a California sampling 64%, and the John P. Harris poll, run by a Kansas outfit, has him leading Barry 52 to 28 in that state. There are soft spots throughout the South...
...nasty series of jolts. He could not button his shirt, tie his shoes, spell certain kinds of words; worst of all, he could no longer operate a typewriter. A former managing editor of FORTUNE, author of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, and an associate of Pollster Elmo Roper, Hodgins felt almost as dependent on his typewriter as a scuba diver on his air tank. Faced with a future of uselessness, he no longer wanted a future at all. He began waking up each morning "with one dominating thought: how pleasant and simple 'a solution it would...
...Alexander Roper Vidler, 64. A goateed, beekeeping bachelor, Vidler is dean of King's College. As editor of both Theology and Soundings, he regards himself as the "midwife" of much of the new Cambridge thought. His specialty is ecclesiastical history, and Vidler is a trenchant critic of the "legalisms" and archaic institutions that have be come fossilized within the Church of England. He believes that most Anglican theologians have been "lethargic, dealing with secondary questions." To him, the merit of Cambridge theology is that, right or wrong, it has attempted to tackle basic issues concerning church, faith...
...that any reasonable German statesman would have held for his country, a bucket brigade of his British colleagues rushed to douse the blaze. A. L. Rowse snapped that Taylor's book, The Origins of the Second World War, "is a whitewashing of Hitler." Terrible-tempered H. R. Trevor-Roper charged that Taylor "suppresses and arranges evidence." But the man with perhaps the best claim to speak about Hitler's aims and methods-Historian Alan Bullock, Master of Oxford's St. Catherine's College and author of the definitive biography of Hitler-kept aloof from the dogfight...
...grandson of the late Tom Mix, was off to Hollywood. He has now finished playing a drifter in a forthcoming TV episode in hopes that his grandpap's talents were hereditary. At least some of them seem to be, because "Hick" is already a pretty fair rider and roper, used to do it for a living as foreman on his father's Laredo ranch. "Back home in Texas, I made $5 a day," he says. "But here I make $250." So he figures he'll try acting for a while. "If I don't make...