Springville Herald | 1951-01-04 | Page 6 | Nation's Twelve Smartest Women are Named in Poll

' Nation's Twelve Smartest Women Are Named In Poll Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt ranked first on the book of knowledge lf9t of the 12 smartest women in America for the second consecutive consecu-tive year, the annual poll 'of the children's encyclopedia showed this week. Concert Singer Marian Anderson was the second in poll, which was . .conducted by editors of the encyclopedia en-cyclopedia among a nation-wide parents' panel. Listed in the top 12 for the second consecutive year were Anne O'Hare McCormick, of the New York Times, Mme. Vijaya Pandit, Indian ambassador to the United States, Columnist Dorothy Thompson and Margaret Mead. Newcomers to the list were Marguerite Higgins, foreign correspondent cor-respondent of the New York Herald Her-ald Tribune; Actress Helen Hayes, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, Sister Sis-ter Kenney, Helen Keller and Florence Rena Sabin, physicist.