Word: samplers
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...seem to be in a damning mood. Here the anger at the press and TV enters the picture. Too long have the messengers brought the bad news. People do not want to listen to it, let alone get sore about it. Daniel Yankelovich, TIME'S public opinion sampler, came up with the astounding finding that 75% of the voters of 16 states were "sick and tired" of the constant running down of the nation. A plague on the messengers, never mind the facts...
...things dramatic are invariably ordered better in London than in New York City seems to contain as much myth as substance. British theater is often more impressive in bounty than in boldness, more remarkable for its solid reliability than for any comet flights of dramatic excitement. Herewith a sampler of the current season...
...itself is enough to stir new suspicion of advertising. Democratic Senator Frank Moss of Utah charges "wide spread and flagrant" failure of advertisers to substantiate their claims. His contention is based on a special study made for him by the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. A sampler of the results...
Each one consists of a sand-filled, depressed area with a signpost in the center to serve both as marker and target. On opening day, dog owners and dogs lined up to use the inaugural facility in Serzedelo Corréa Plaza, but the first sampler was a three-year-old boy who wriggled away from his mother and hit the post perfectly. Said his embarrassed mother: "He has always been somewhat mischievous." As for the dogs, most of them went about their business as usual...
Looking like a nineteenth century candy sampler resting on a mammoth paper doily, the printed scrim that greets the Loeb audience is engagingly nostalgic. Unfortunately, the production of The Matchmaker that unfolds behind it is as overly sweet as the candy one would expect to find...