Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opponents say this is a rationalization for the defeats his preposterous proposals have suffered, Vellucci claims his tactics have achieved results. "A certain group of people was trying to make me look ridiculous on my confiscation motion last year," he says, "but now Harvard is making an intensive survey of the situation and M.I.T. has built two new parking lots...
This week, midway through a six-week survey syndicated daily in 83 newspapers, Lubell offered an interim forecast based on his findings among what he calls the key voters-those who supported Harry Truman in 1948 and switched to Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. He estimated that "roughly half" of these voters would go for Eisenhower again. "If the proportion holds until Election Day," he said, "it would give the President around 52% of the popular vote, even if all the voters who now say they are 'undecided' were to swing to Adlai Stevenson...
...Lubell did not turn to his specialty until he had already carved out a career as newsman, free-lance magazine writer and Government planner. In World War II he served as right-hand man to Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, who credited him with "doing all the work" on the survey that formed national policy on rubber production. In 1948 the Saturday Evening Post assigned him to do a post-mortem on the election upset. The result led him to a Guggenheim fellowship that financed a two-year study of election phenomena, produced the first of his two notable books...
...claims no statistical precision for his technique ("decimal points in a polling percentage are a pretentious farce"), but he believes that he misses no major trends or issues. Other newsmen have begun to pay him the compliment of imitation. Several Scripps-Howard papers, which run his national pre-election survey, are getting his help in mapping local surveys by their own reporters. Almost invariably when he finishes an interview, he is asked: "Who are you going to vote for?" Though the last Who's Who lists him as "Ind. Dem.", Lubell explains that he no longer registers, votes...
...survey the accomplishments of artists with such commonplace subject matter (called by the French nature morte, by the Spaniards bodegones, which means "low-class restaurant or taproom"), the Milwaukee Art Institute and the Cincinnati Art Museum have teamed up to assemble an ambitious selection ot paintings covering 500 years of still life. Opening this week in Cincinnati, the exhibition ranges from an unknown German's Cabinet with Bottles and Books, dated 1470, down to such later-day works as Georges Braque's Soda and Stuart Davis' Eggbeater V; it includes works by the 17th century Dutch masters...