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...public mind since 1948-and as deeply burning to the "scientific" pollsters and to newsmen-was the much-printed picture of beaming, victorious Harry Truman holding up a copy of the Chicago Tribune headlined DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. The fire had been lighted by Pollsters George Gallup, Elmo Roper, et al., who had miscalled the 1948 election. The public remembered 1948, and so did the pollsters. In 1952, though they detected the Ikeward lean with impressive accuracy, they carefully hedged their final figures with large percentages of undecided voters and other forms of insurance...
These are the questions posed in 101 U.S. newspapers this week by a slick new comic strip, or "fiction panel," as the trade knows unfunny funnies. David Crane follows in the soapy footsteps of those other vocational do-gooders, Rex Morgan, M.D., Steve Roper, wholesome news photographer, and Mary Worth, motherly meddler...
Died. Claude Ernest Hooper, 56, one of the best known (with George Gallup and Elmo Roper) of U.S. public pulse-takers, originator (in 1934) of the Hooper ratings for radio and television, one of the most respected audience barometers in the business; in a boating accident; on Utah's Great Salt Lake...
...BORMANN LETTERS, edited by H. R. Trevor-Roper (200 pp.; British Book Centre; $3.75), a selection from correspondence between Hitler's mysterious "Brown Eminence" and his wife, is a fascinating document of the dreadful Nazi Utopia. They demonstrate with many expressions of endearment ("My dearest Mummy-Girl") that Martin Bormann (still missing after years of Allied search) was a human being-if a horribly peculiar one. The Bormanns raised a perfect Aryan family of nine, taking care that "none of our children gets depraved and diseased by the poison of Christianity." One day in January 1944, Bormann jubilantly informed...
Citizen's Duty. In Baraboo, Wis., James Lee Roper, held in the county jail on a murder charge, wrote Town Clerk Carl Hirschinger: "It may be inconvenient for me to get to the polls to vote next Tuesday; I would like an absentee ballot...