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Show United Stales and Great Britain Have Thirty Per Cent of World's "Who's Who" The United States and Great Britain Brit-ain have more than 30 per cent of the persons listed in the international internation-al "Who's Who" published in London. Lon-don. This book. 19,000 biographies of persons who were considered by the editors to be of "international prominence," had 3,150 persons from Great Britain and 2,050 from the United States. The total percentage of women in the book was only 1.6 and Great Britain's contribution was only 2.8, but the United States women had 5.6 per cent of the space. Frank B. Littell, of Washington, dissected the lists in the magazine "Science" and found the following percentage distribution of international interna-tional celebrities by nationalities: Great Britain, 16.7; United States, 14; France, 9.1; Germany, 8.2; Italy, 3.7; Sweden, 3.3; Japan, 2.6; Denmark, Den-mark, 2.3; Hungary, 2.2; Canada, 2.2; Netherlands, 2.1; Australia, 2.1; and Poland, 2.1. A comparison of tne distribution of internationally known men in the United States and Great Britain shows where the most striking rec- ognized advances have been made in the two countries. For example, politics is first on the British list and fifth on the American list Since the British have dominions all over the world and thus ore, in a sense, internationalists, in-ternationalists, this could be expected. expect-ed. On the other hand, scientists led the American list, as might be expected from the "inventingest" and most science-worshiping nation in the world. Of the 2,650 Americans in the "Who's Who" 610 attended two colleges col-leges or universities, 200 attended three institutions and 110 attended four or more. On the other hand, 420 did not list any college education. educa-tion. Harvard is the alma mater of more famous Americans than any other school. Co'.umbia and Yale were next. |
