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Many a hard-working man of God got some encouragement last week to work harder than ever. Periodically since 1942, Elmo Roper pollsters have asked a nationwide sampling of citizens: what group "do you feel is doing the most good for the country at the present time?" In five years, the "religious leaders" category has jumped from third to first place. Chief source of popular disenchantment: Government leaders. How the nation's leaders rate (in percentages) with the people...
...doctor to give birth-control information to a patient whose health or life might be endangered by pregnancy. Roman Catholic spokesmen promptly opposed it. But the doctors had some unprecedented support: the Hartford Courant, first major Connecticut newspaper ever to come out on their side, 500 ministers, an Elmo Roper poll which showed that 85% of the state's citizens (including 75% of its Roman Catholics) favored the bill in principle...
...Pollster Elmo Roper reported to FORTUNE that if a general runs for President he will have hard sledding among veterans. In the first nationwide survey of veteran voters, he found that only 16% of ex-servicemen would support General Mac-Arthur, only 30% Ike Eisenhower...
...discussion leaders such editors as the New York Times's Turner Catledge, the Cleveland Press's Louis B. Seltzer, the Louisville Courier-Journal's James Pope. Among scheduled guest lecturers: the C.I.O.'s black-haired James B. Carey and opinion samplers George Gallup and Elmo Roper...
...youthful Harris Wofford Jr., founder of Student Federalists (the junior branch of Federal Union). Sparkplug of the eight full-time staffers, all under 30, is energetic Managing Editor Helen B. Hamer, alumna of Manhattan's Greenwich Villager and Science Illustrated. The "panel of contributors" includes Wickham Steed, Elmo Roper, Pertinax, Magyar Cartoonists Derso & Kelen...