Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan-a town whose citizens assay high for canniness-a leisure-loving group of bums made a delightful discovery last year. They discovered that life and even love on the dole was not such a bad racket. A sharp operator could live in a good hotel room (even when travelers were being turned away) and get generous allowances for restaurant meals simply by talking fast and avoiding employment. And he could sometimes live the good, gay life for months without hindrance by welfare authorities...
...Lehut is 43, small, blonde and shapely. She lives and is politically active, to put it mildly, in the grimy suburb of La Courneuve (voting strength: about 8,000) in Paris' "Red Belt." Ordinarily the town politics of La Courneuve are not big news. But last week Renée Lehut made the transatlantic cables by doing something that millions of women do every day. She changed her mind...
...October, La Courneuve had elected 27 town councillors, 14 of them Communists. One of the 14 was Renée Lehut. Last week the council met in public assembly to choose a mayor. The thing seemed to be in the bag. In a preliminary huddle, the "Cocos" (Commies), holding a majority, had decided to cast a solid vote for one Maurice Léonard...
...American education's mainstream. Although the College operates for the most part within a framework of custom loving conservatism and the graduate school has not yet assumed significant size, "Princeton" the community is alive with intellectual adventure. There the Institute for Advanced Studies conducts its profound theoretical explorations; across town at headquarters of the Gallup Poll experts from the University's Office of Public Opinion Research provide technical assistance in the delicate process of national pulse-taking...
This sort of integration has occurred to make the town of Princeton the veritable hub of the country's mushrooming public-opinion polling industry. George Gallup, whose chief employment is with Young and Rubicam's advertising agency, located his polling headquarters in Princeton for the sake of proximity to his farm in the nearby New Jersey hills. Quite coincidentally at the same point in the mid-Thirties psychologist Hadley Cantril succeeded in setting up the University-sponsored Office of Public Opinion Research, sole complete archives of all findings by the various agencies, as well as "Public Opinion Quarterly," the single...