Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perhaps," mused Pollster Sam Lubell this week, "I should hedge my election predictions." Then he added: "But in simple honesty, I can't." Lubell's major prediction: "President Dwight D. Eisenhower should prove a fairly easy winner in the voting...
...Sam Lubell's qualms, however vague, were shared by other political analysts. As the 1956 campaign entered its final week, the result looked almost too clear-cut to be true. The U.S. voter was far from apathetic, a fact reflected by record registration in many states. He seemed interested-but strangely quiet. There were remarkably few campaign buttons and stickers, remarkably few barroom arguments, remarkably few impassioned doorbell ringers. In the presidential race between Republican Dwight Eisenhower and Democrat Adlai Stevenson, the strange atmosphere of quiet wrapped up the Republicans' secret hopes for an unprecedented landslide; it held...
...Sam Halaby, Chris Hauge, and Alby Cullen make up the starting quartet in the backfield. Cullen is fast and a fine runner, but Margarita feels that he is seriously hampered by his weight. "At 160 pounds, he's really light for a power runner," the Yardling coach said. Ted Marmor, the number two passer on the team, saw a lot of action in the Dartmouth game...
...Sam Freeman opened scoring early in the game, and Bob Chase added a goal for Wesleyan shortly before the end of the first period. The Crimson attack began to function in the second quarter, but Wesleyan defensemen broke up all scoring opportunities...
...ring of a doorbell last week at thresholds in Florida and Massachusetts signaled the appearance of a short (5 ft. 5 in.), pudgy man with a disarming grin. "My name is Sam Lubell," he said, "and I'm trying to report the political campaign by talking to the voters." For his pains Reporter Lubell, 44, who has been ringing doorbells since 1948, has been bitten by three dogs, taken for a masher by housewives, a salesman by husbands, and once for a C.I.O. spy. But he has also rung a new bell in political reporting: by combining shoe leather...