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Show Eisenhower is again the overwhelming choice of Americans as the “Most Admired Man” in the world today. This is the sixth time in the last seven years that Mr. Eisenhower has come in first in the Institute’s annual survey to determine which man living in the world today the public admires the most. In today’s survey, the total vote for Eisenhower is greater than the vote cast for all the other men mentioned by the public. In second place again this year is Sir Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of Great Britain. In third place - up from eighth last year - is Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, noted Catholic clergyman, author and television speaker. The poll on the most admired woman, as reported earlier, showed Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce Number One and Two respectively in the list of the top 10 women. CROSS-SECTION Annually since 1946, interviewers for the Institute have put the following question to a carefully worded cross-section of the American public: “What man that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire most?” The top men this year, in order of frequency of mention, are: 1. President Eisenhower. 2. Sir Winston Churchill. 3. Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. 4. Dr. Albert Schweitzer 5. Adlai E. Stevenson. 6. Gen. Douglas MacArthur. 7. Pope Pius XII. 8. Dag Hammarskjold. 9. Billy Graham. 10. Dr. Jonas Salk. Newcomers to this year’s list are Mr. Hammarskjold, Secretary General of the United Nations, and Dr. Salk, medical researcher who developed the Salk vaccine for poliomyelitis. Former Presidents Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover - who placed fourth and seventh respectively in last year’s list - failed this year to win enough votes to be counted among the first 10. MOST ADMIRED MEN Here is last year’s list of the 10 most admired men: 1. President Eisenhower. 2. Sir Winston Churchill. 3. Gen. MacArthur. 4. Former President Truman. 5. Dr. Schweitzer. 6. Pope Pius XII. 7. Former President Hoover. 8. Bishop Sheen. 9. Billy Graham. 10. Mr. Stevenson. Other men who received prominent mention in today’s survey: POLITICS: Sen. Walter George, Sen. Albert Gore, former President Herbert Hoover, Sen. Estes Kefauver, Sen. John Kennedy, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Speaker Sam Rayburn, Sen. Stuart Symington, Sen. Herman Talmadge, and former President Harry S. Truman. RELIGION: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., of Montgomery, Ala.; Joseph Cardinal Mindzenty, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, and Rev. Oral Roberts. TV & RADIO: Perry Como, Art Linkletter, Edward R. Murrow, and Ed Sullivan. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Mr. Bernard Baruch, Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, Dr. Ralph Bunche, Secretary of State John Fost Dulles, Prime Minister Anthony Eden, U.N. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge, and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. OTHERS: Adm. Richard Byrd, Joe Louis, and Dr. Robert Oppenheimer. |
