Apropos of nothing...

Gary Mormino of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg sends along another batch of interesting news clips from history. Here's a Gallup poll from 1958 showing Eleanor Roosevelt to be the Most Admired Woman in the world. Others in the list include the young Queen Elizabeth II, Claire Booth Luce, Mamie Eisenhower, Helen Keller Marian Anderson and Dinah Shore.

Here are the most result results for the annual Gallup poll taken last December, with the pecentage of respondents mentioning the name, and the number of years in the top 10:

1	Hillary Rodham Clinton	13	15
2	Oprah Winfrey	9	19
3	Condoleezza Rice	8	6
4	Laura Bush	4	6
5	Margaret Thatcher	2	28
6	Angelina Jolie	2	2
7	Nancy Pelosi	1	1
	Madeleine Albright	1	10
9	Barbara Bush	1	18
10	Maya Angelou	1	10