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Show $singer; Actress Betty Grable; Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas; Margaret Truman, daughter of the President; and the Duchess of Windsor. "Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the late President, is the woman most admired by Americans. She is a popular newspaper columnist and is U. S. Representative to ' the United Nations General Assembly. Sister Elizabeth Kenny, Australian-born nurse, is famous for de- POLL CONDUCTED TO FIND MOST ADMIRED WOMEN Who are the ten women most admired by Americans today ? The Gallup Poll found the answer to that question for Redbook Magazine. Maga-zine. Reporting on the interesting results in the March issue, William A. Lydgate, Gallup Poll Editor, writes: singing in a church choir at the age of four. Bess Wallace Truman, Tru-man, wife of President Harry S. Truman, America's First Lady, was ninth. She is widely admired for her simplicity and dignity. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland achieved tenth place. Ruler of the far-flung Dutch empire, she has guided Holland for fifty years and through two World Wars." vising the Kenny Method of treating infantile paralysis victims. vic-tims. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, Wellesley College graduate and third on the list, is the attractive, astute wife of the leader of China's ruling party. Clare Booth Luce was next. Author and playwright, she became nationally known during dur-ing her two terms as a Congress-woman Congress-woman from Connecticut. Helen Keller, the fifth in popularity, has been blind and deaf since the age of nineteen months, but is famous the world over as a lecturer and writer. "Princess Elizabeth, who received re-ceived next place on the list,, is now the Duchess of Edinburgh. She has won admiration in America Amer-ica for her charm, poise and unassuming unas-suming manner. Dorothy Thompson, Thomp-son, influential political commentator commen-tator and columnist since 1936, was seventh. She first gained fame as a foreign correspondent. Eighth among the most admired women was Kate Smith, favorite of millions mil-lions of listeners, who ' made her radio debut in 1931. She began "From coast to coast interviewers interview-ers asked men and women in all walks of life, 'What woman living today in any part of the world that you have heard or read about do you admire the most?" "The winner by a wide margin is Eleanor Roosevelt, who was named by more than three times as many people as the next most-admired most-admired woman, Sister Kenny. It is interesting to note that no motion-picture actress is among the top ten, although a famous radio star, Kate Smith, is represented. Nor are any women educators or college presidents, stage actresses, sportswomen or American society women ranked among the first ten. The leading choices of men interviewed are identical with those of the women polled, indicating indi-cating that when a woman has praiseworthy qualities she is admired ad-mired equally by men and women. "Six women tied for eleventh place: Queen Elizabeth of England; Eng-land; Marian Anderson the Negro |