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CROSS-SECTION, Kansas, Nov. 17--The Harvard CRIMSON's newest football prognosticator is Gonfalon B. Mud, former Poll Editor of the Literary Digoat. Mr. Mud was engaged on a trial basis only.
Mud has been semi-unemployed since 1936, when The Literary Digest cased publication. Prior to that, he had been in charge of the magazine's Doll that indicated a landslide victory for Alfred Landon. He has had occasional jobs since then with Drew Pearson and The New York Daily News, and in 1948 he was Dr. Gallup's right-hand man.
The forecaster changed his name to Mud in 1936. He does all his sampling of public opinion in the typical American town of Cross-Section, Kansas. At his office today, Mud said: "I don't see how either team can win, but if it has to be anybody it might just as well be:
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