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Pollster Gallup defends the accuracy of his poll with a mathematical formula: "Suppose there are 7,000 white beans and 3,000 black beans well churned up in a barrel. If you scoop out 100 of them, you'll get approximately 70 white beans and 30 black in your hand and the range of your possible error can be computed mathematically. As long as the barrel contains many more beans than your handful, the proportion will remain within that margin of error 997 times out of 1,000." The reverse, he maintains, is equally true: a proportion...
...could have guessed that a long-haired Hollywood "hermit," a bearded and usually barefoot character, had a hit song in his pocket? No one did-except Nat ("King") Cole. And last week, with Eden Ahbez' Nature Boy, King Cole and Capitol Records had the biggest musical scoop since...
Soon after him arrives Slater, a loutish newspaperman modeled after characters in Evelyn Waugh's early novels. Slater wants a raid even if it means the death of Bullivant and the 23rd Corps-just so long as he gets his scoop. He bullies Bullivant into bullying the partisans. to agree to fight. His scoop is ruined when, in a farcical scene, 19 other newspapermen descend on the camp to cover the raid. Comic fiasco turns to tragedy: the partisans attack, only to suffer casualties from the Allies, who have in the meantime taken over the area. Men have died...
...take no risk whatever except when conscience compels us. We should not expend any 'risk' for the sake of having a scoop, for the sake of being the 'wise guy,' for the sake of attracting attention or being entertaining. . . . We must be scrupulously careful not to confuse what is happening with what we devoutly wish may happen...
Boogie-Woogie Artist Hazel Scott put in a long-distance call to Switzerland to chat with her fan, Princess Anne (who had revealed in LIFE that she "loved to listen to Hazel"), came up with a scoop of sorts: the big wedding would probably be in Copenhagen in April-not May, as most gossips have reported...