TIME

March 10, 1941 12:00 AM GMT-5

Forest Gillum, 56, of Omaha, wore a huge Willkie button through the Presidential campaign. When Willkie lost, exultant Democrat Abner Tunspall, 35, razzed Forest Gillum mercilessly. One day frantic Forest Gillum turned on his tormentor, cut his throat. Last week Gillum, pleading guilty to manslaughter, was sentenced to two years in prison. Said the judge, “He just reached the end of his resistance.”

This week’s Gallup poll made it clear that for most of the U. S. the razzing and the bitterness of the campaign were over. The Gallup poll reported that throughout the U. S. 22% liked Willkie more than they had at the time of the election, 14% liked him less, 64% had not changed their opinion. Most significant figures: 24% of the Willkie voters liked him less than they had before he visited England and endorsed the Lend-Lease Bill, 14% liked him more, while 31% of the Roosevelt voters liked Willkie more than they had during the campaign. Asked if Wendell Willkie would have made a good President if elected, 60% of the voters (85% of the Republicans, 39% of the Democrats) answered: Yes.

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