The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-02
DY DOROTHY ROE

Assoelated Press WomoTs eoifoF
Elizabeth Of England Is voted
Woman Of the Year for the third
time In the 18th annual women's
editor pol Of AP newspapers.
Twice before the nations wom-
ems editors named her as top
woman news personality Of the
year - Ia 1o47, when the royal
romance Of Princess Elizabeth and
Prince Philip first hit the front
pages, and In 1852, when England's
crown princess succeeded to the
throne.
In 1858 the pomp and panoply
u the coronation, plus the current
world tour Of the young queen and
her handsome eonsort, onee again
make Queen Elizabeth II the dom.
inaDt news figure among the
worlds women.
Runners-up In the poll were Ma.
NILE Eisenhower, whose sparkling
smile ID familiar TO all newspaper
readers, and Mrs. Viiaya Pandit,
Of india. current president Of the
u. 8. General Assembly.
Women voted outstanding in
their respective fields for 1853 are
% follows:
PUsLIc SERVICE: oveta Culp
Hobby, secretary Of the newly
created Dept. Of Health, Ed
ucation and Welfare, the second
woman In history to hold U. S.
Cabinet rank.
The Little Colonel" who or.
1anized and headed the Women's
Army Corps In World War II has
achieved her greatest honor last
year, when President Eisenhower
created q new cabinet post for her.
Small, vital, and addicted to indi-
vidual hats, Mrs. Hobby Is known
o. . power In the upper echelons
Of Washington.
Wife Of former Gov. william p.
Hobby, publisher Of the Houston
Post, she was q tireless worker In
The Eisenhower campaign, and Is
given much credit for swinging
Texas to the Republican columns
IN the last election.
Commenting on women in public
service, she said:
''Publie Service, on the part Of
men or women, expresses itself
in many ways.
"The act Of voting, participation
IN voluntary citizens groups, hold
Ing public office - all represent
meeting the obligations Of demo-
eracy.
EFF women - and men - accept
the simple but important fact that
citizenship In . free world repre-
SCENTS such an obligation and seek,
20 the degree that each Is able. to
translate It into action, they viii
Be fulfilling the responsibility and
privileges Of citizens of this great
nation"
POLITICS. Clare Boothe Luce,
first woman ambassador to Rome
from any nation and first woman
ever appointed to head q mjor
US. Embassy. The former play
wright and Congresswomen from
Connecticut has been making top|
headlines for years, In varied
nelds. During World War II she liv-
sned proceedings in Congress byI
coming the words "bubblehead"|
and "globaloney" during comments
about former Vice President Henry
wallace.
A former New York fashion edi-
Cor, she Is the wife Of publisher
Henry r. Luce, publisher of Times,
Life and Fortune magazines. She
% author Of seven plays and three
books, q regular on the list of the
worlds ten best-dressed women,
and Q foreeful and brilliant speak
O..
she retired from politics in 1876
when she was converted to the Ro-
man Catholic Church and again
1eok up her writing. It was not I'm.
q last year that she resumed po-
iitical activity as q campaigner for
General Eisenhower.
BUSINESS: Jacqueline Coch-
ran, who In 1858 managed 10 roll
wp two new aviation records while
running three cosmetics companies
Aoing q business of several Million
cellars a year. Miss Cochran last
spring became the first women In
Aistory 10 fly faster than the speed
q sound, and also set q new In
eAenational jet speed record for the
1oo-kilometer closed course of 6S2I
miles an hour. She broke the sup
srsenle barrier just in time to get
q 11th wedding anniversary pre-
esae from her husband, financierl
Hloyd B. O6lum. which was q sill
Vef cup inscribed:
"fo Supersonlc Jackie from
Floyd. May II, 1855"
SupersOnie Jackie has been max.
As aviation headlines since 1882,
when the former beauty-shop OPP
orator from Pensacola, Fla, OBJ
tained her pilots license after two
eAd Q hall weeks training. She Is
&c only woman to win the Bendix
Air Race (lsSS); she was the first
W0man 70 dy bomber across the
Atlantic ran. aha ,uas World War