Marlene Dietrich received an accolade from Manhattan's autograph puppies, who rewarded her willingness to sign by adopting her as "Aunt Minnie." Top-ranking non-collaborators, reported the bobby-sox collectors, were "Gruesome Garson," "Gravel Gertie Nissen" and "Break-Your-Arm Benchley."
Robert Frost, four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, got an honorary LL.D. from Kenyon College.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who got an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Louvain, got top marks from Woman's Home Companion readers in a poll of the living Americans they most admired. Runners-up, in order: President Harry S. Truman, Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt, General Douglas MacArthur, ex-President Herbert Hoover and Motorman Henry...
