Laurel Day

Merit was winning recognition all over the place. Henry Ford II got the Thomas A. Edison Centennial Award for industrial statesmanship. John D. Rockefeller Jr. got the New York City Welfare Council's annual award for distinguished service to the community. Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder and C.I.O. President Phil Murray got Medals for Merit for their war work. And Harvard's President James B. Conant was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Illinois. Bernard Baruch passed the entire week without getting an award of any sort. Ethel Barry more still hard at work, may or may not have been 100% pleased by the tribute Manhattan paid her in a parade of floats honoring great women. Ethel found herself in the company of Susan B. Anthony, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Cinemactress Janis Paige, who at one time or another has been Miss Bowling Girl, Miss Delicious, Miss Wing Spread of 1946, The Black Widow Girl, and Miss Best Table Decoration, was finally awarded the title, The Title.

June Allyson found she is the new type of pinup. Editors of 250 college papers, who admire her because she "likes a good book, loves children, and is a good conversationalist," voted her 1947's Most Lovable Movie Actress. Lovable Miss Allyson is now reciprocating by picking the Ail-American College Man.

George VI and Elizabeth, home from Africa (see FOREIGN NEWS), had a new tribute for their scrapbook, painstakingly pieced together by 68-year-old Poet Laureate John Masefield (whose services to the Crown earn him roughly $515 a year). He cheerfully reported the world's recognition of:

How strong a union, to the planet's ends, Your Empire is, our band of scattered friends.

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