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...number of people who think something like that about the Korean war may be larger than Candidate Stevenson thinks. This week Elmo Roper's public-opinion poll published the following results of what percentage of Americans agree with the following statements on what the U.S. should do in Korea...
Based on Uncle Clem's Boy, by the late Mrs. Will Rogers (played by Jane Wyman), the picture traces Rogers' career from Oklahoma cowpuncher to Wild-West-show trick roper, vaudeville lasso artist-monologist, and poet lariat and sagebrush sage of stage, screen, radio, banquet table, speakers' platform and syndicated column. The picture ends with Rogers' death at 55, during an Alaskan flight with Wiley Post...
Specialists. In Swanwick, England, nine bell ringers of St. Andrew's Church went on strike when the Rev. L. H. Roper told them they would have to attend services...
There was something more than just the ordinary Cantab loss in 1926, however. A Lampoon parody of a Crimson football extra carried a gag story of Tiger Coach Roper's death on the field. Lampy's exuberance helped to bring an already acid relationship with Princeton to a break which lasted eight years...
...later became a vice president of Stanford University, then came East to pull 29 scattered colleges together into the just-born State University of New York. Wilson, who couldn't leave questions alone, became a pollster. He directed wartime surveys for OWI and SHAEF, later joined Elmo Roper as a partner in International Public Opinion Research...