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Married. Lois De Fee, 25, 180-lb., towering (6 ft. 2 in.) Amazon, onetime nightclub bouncer, and Lieut. Hugh M. Roper, A.A.F., 23; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Annapolis...
That the world's peoples still have a lot to learn about each other was apparent last week to any newspaper reader. Summarizing the results of surveys in recent years in the comparatively well-informed U.S., Pollster Elmo Roper concluded, in the New York Herald Tribune, that many U.S. citizens were appallingly uninformed even about their closest Allies. Samples of ignorance...
...FORTUNE Survey, conducted by Elmo Roper, divided the popular civilian vote: Roosevelt, 53.6%; Dewey...
There seemed little doubt that the election would be close, unless all the polls and the experts were wrong. Pollster Gallup gave Franklin Roosevelt a slight edge (51%) but had left himself plenty of room to get back off the limb. The FORTUNE survey, conducted by Elmo Roper, gave Candidate Roosevelt 53.5%, but it also pointed to the numerous imponderables that make poll-taking risky work in 1944. Some of them: 1) the soldier vote; 2) migrating war workers; 3) the difficulty of poll-taking under gas rationing; 4) the "silent vote." The one new development in the FORTUNE poll...
FORTUNE sent Elmo Roper's interviewers into Pennsylvania, the Keystone State, during the last week of September. Their findings...