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...Miss Darrah's day, 90% of the children in the survey picked their heroes from history and letters. Washington and Lincoln led the list, followed by John Greenleaf Whittier, Clara Barton, Julius Caesar, Christopher Columbus. Few of them gave first place to living notables; even such national characters as Champion Skater John S. Johnson and Heavyweight James J. Corbett rated only a handful of votes...
Today's teen-agers turned out to be less impressed by the past than by the present. Only 33% of them picked their heroes & heroines from history. (Franklin Roosevelt had passed Washington and Lincoln in this department, though Clara Barton still led among girls.) The real bandwagon movement (37% of the votes) is to contemporary stars of screen, sport, radio and the comics, Averill found. Tops among the heroes in these fields: Outfielder Ted Williams, Hollywood's Gene Autry, Esther Williams and Betty Grable, the comic-strip hero Joe Palooka...
...developed much of an appetite for the song until January, when a strong-lunged little singer named Eileen Barton decided it was to her taste and National Records thought it was worth putting on wax. Her bouncy version, complete with hand clapping and group singing, was just the frosting Merrill's ditty needed. Disc jockeys, singers and jukeboxes began serving it up in more & more generous helpings...
Donald T. Fox, Jr. '51 was awarded the Air Force Reserve Association's medal for the senior ROTC student showing "excellence in leadership, scholastics, military bearing, discipline, and related traits." Professor W. Barton Leach '21 of the Law School, a Brigadier General in the Air Force Reserve, made the presentation...
...Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (Warner) is a thin Irish stew of vaudeville acts, served up in turn-of-the-century Manhattan with a father-doesn't-approve love story. June Haver, one of three overprotected daughters of a crotchety Irish widower (James Barton), defies the old man by going into show business and taking up with Showman Tony Pastor (Gordon MacRae). Another daughter (Marsha Jones), who has already defied him by marrying secretly, is expecting twins. The central gag: learning that one of the girls is pregnant, Barton suspects the worst of June. The music and dance...