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The U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce, representing 2,300 local groups of young men under 36, last week named "America's Ten Outstanding Young Men of 1953." The ten:

> Medical Researcher Dr. Albert Schatz, 33, professor at Pennsylvania's National Agricultural College, for his role in the discovery of the wonder drug, streptomycin (TIME, Jan. 8, 1951).

> Crusading Newspaperman Walter Horace Carter, 32, editor and co-publisher of the Tabor City (N.C.) Tribune, for his fight against the Ku Klux Klan (TIME, May 11).

> Utah's Republican Congressman Douglas R. Stringfellow, 31, paralyzed as the result of a World War II wound, who was elected a year ago.

>Tennessee's Governor Frank Goad Clement, 33, for "his contributions to the general welfare of the people" of his state (TIME, Aug. 18, 1952).

>Dr. Bernard J. Miller, 35, co-inventor of a fully automatic artificial heart.

> Texas Farmer-Businessman Billie Sol Estes, 28, who pyramided the profits from a lamb, given him by his parents at 13, into a $38,000 farm investment six years later, also owns a tourist court and manufactures steel farm buildings.

> Negro Newspaperman Carl T. Rowan, 28, of Minneapolis, for a series of articles on race relations and a book, South of Freedom (TIME, March 12, 1951).

> Medical Researcher Dr. Lloyd Thomas Koritz, 26, who voluntarily underwent artificial paralyzation in order to develop a new method of artificial respiration.

> Congressional Medal of Honor Winner Sergeant Hiroshi Miyamura, 28, who spent 28 months in a Communist prison after killing more than 50 enemy soldiers in singlehanded night combat in Korea (TIME, Aug. 31).

>Explorer-Geologist Maynard Malcolm Miller, 32, who organized and led the first exploration of the inaccessible Juneau Ice Field in Alaska, has acted as consultant to the Air Force on Arctic conditions (TIME, Oct. 1, 1951).