People: The Chosen Few

After asking its readers to name the greatest living American," the Saturday Review of Literature reported their choice-General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Members of the National Arts Foundation picked Dr. Albert Schweitzer as the man who has "the best solution to the world's problems," and Architect Frank Lloyd Wright as the contemporary American artist who would be "the most highly regarded" by the year 2000.

In New York, a blunt physical culturist submitted his candidates for the ten most beautiful women in America "if they would only lose ten pounds." Among them-Cinemactress Jane Russell,...

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