OPINION: he Most Admired

Carrying on a year-end custom established in 1946, Pollster George Gallup last week sent his interviewers out to ask a cross section of the U.S. public: "What man that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire the most?" The most admired, by a wide margin: Dwight D. Eisenhower. Winner Eisenhower (who also was top man in 1952) had as many votes as the combined total of the next two men on the list—Sir Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur. Other high-ranking also-rans: Harry S. Truman, Adlai E. Stevenson, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, Pope Pius XII and former President Herbert Hoover. A newcomer among the top ten: Wisconsin's U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, who ranked seventh.