Word: darrah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dartmouth men and their guests braved the cold during Outdoor Evening last night to watch Barbara Ann Scott, Women's World Figure Skating Champion, and others in an hour-long ice-spectacle, "Women and Song." Blond, blue-eyed Smith sophomore Susan Darrah, chosen as Queen of the Carnival, admitted being "thrilled to death and nervous...
...long before polls became a national preoccupation, an inquisitive schoolteacher named Estelle M. Darrah decided to find out what sort of heroes & heroines children had. She polled 1,440 youngsters, aged 12 to 14. Last week, after finishing a similar survey of his own, Professor Lawrence A. Averill of Worcester (Mass.) State Teachers College reported in School and Society how times and heroes have changed...
...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...