Word: survey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Habits. The average male graduate is much more likely to be married (82%) than the average coed (62.4%), and his marriage is a little more likely to have weathered the years. The average college parent in the TIME survey has about two children...
Commented Author Kay last week: "Most college graduates, I suppose, remember their classmates as being all kinds: bright and not-so-bright, conscientious and lazy, rich & poor, cynical and idealistic, sophisticated and naive. But we have discovered in this survey that college graduates are actually a surprisingly homogeneous group...
Educators who had taken an advance look at the TIME survey were not sure that this homogeneity was anything for colleges to boast about. They had prided themselves on cultivating individual minds, at least among their A scholars...
...Editor Edwin L. James's staff nightly assembles all the news that's fit to print. Executives sit at the south end, a full block away from some of their reporters. Turner Catledge, assistant to James, was given a pair of opera glasses by his staff to survey the farthest reaches of the room. Near by sits City Editor David Joseph, a shy, balding, quiet-spoken bachelor of 61. His public-address system is one-way; staffers who want to talk back have to hike over to his desk...
...outlook," the survey concluded rosily, "is that consumer expenditure . . . will continue in expanding volume . . . It is possible that immediate consumer demand for certain types of durable goods has increased further since the survey, which was taken before the proposed increase in military expenditures...