European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 04, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes wednesday december 4, 1955 columns Coffi Mente today s crossword beef usually Means beef known a i 1 is Goodman i .1111 i of the hoi in Rel lists a to in nut i self described pollster armed with a pen. Pencil or print ii Don t the general rever ence for them sic i number tens in the the ten Best worst dressed or sniffed. Loved or respected among entertainers and athletes world leaders and House Pels. Nevertheless Here 1 ski poring Over three such list that i have garnered from past weeks a greatest a ii Iosi Nul .1 Best to my to wrest some meaning out of the ranks of my Pel la lives. I he greatest is1 a list of american heroes chosen by to High school students in 1.s cities. The to can upor s picked As their top three heroes Liddie Murphy presi Dent Keagan and Bill Cosby. In that order. Mom by the vv.i\, was a write in for seventh place. The mum list came from the november Issue of the1 Adies ionic journal. The Survey of some 2.000 americans ranked the most admired women this a i Katharine Hepburn Barbara Walters 3 Geraldine f Erraro -1 Jane 1 Onda and 5 Nancy Reagan. Tying fur sixth place were Mary i of Ketton and Jeanc Kirkpatrick. J is the Best list. This was a group chosen by purse rather than by poll. The first five books on the new York times Best seller nonfiction list arc Brand or about the following people Elvis Presley Shirley . Chuck Yeager Laconca and Howard Osell. Also rans were Marilyn Monroe Joan Kennedy and John under separate covers of course. On the surface the people who share Billing among the most and Best and greatest have less in common than Vanilla and Strawberry in the top ten ice Cream flavors. Consider the Trinity of super heroes in the teen age world. The president of the United states a Beverly Hills cop and Chat Cliffe Huxtable. All they have in common is an aft a card. Yet tin entire cohort group regards the three As roughly equal in the heroism quotient. As for admiration not Only did the former . Ambas Sador come in neck and neck with a 17-year-old gymnast but an actress Katharine Hepburn beat out a supreme court Justice. Sandra Day o Connor by a country mile. If there is any thread to follow through the upper end of the list the Public seemed to Admire women who were outspoken on the air on the Campaign stump and i films. It seemed to matter less what exactly they had spoken out about. It is possible for example thai the same people Admire a candidate for vice president and the wife of a president As if they were political Peers. The books Isis even More curious. Readers Are Al most equally interested in a Rock legend a test Pilot and a sports broadcaster. Even As we speak a buyer is stand ing at a Cash Register somewhere in America trying to decide Between the allure of one Book that violates the Bill Cosby Murphy privacy of Joan Kennedy and another that exhumed the body of Marilyn Monroe. Which car company executive will gel to the Cash Register the one who saved his com Pany or the one who beat his rap our interminable ranking is really a perverse sort of leveling. Only names make the lists. The individual who rises to the top must be mass marketed. The Best is really the Best known. The most is really the most famous. The greatest goes to those with the greatest circulation. The whole process is quite by arc. We have been told time and again that modern America invented celebrities people who arc known for being known. But if we Combine All the lists together what we have is the most disparate collection of Pelc who share the one shining characteristic of the most bust greatest superlatives Fame. The president his wife the exercise guru the car manufacturer the Broad Caster the actress arc Alt and equally stars. In this leveling process the basis for our admiration and the very definition of heroism arc subtly have come to Admire people because they Are known. We find people interesting because they Are famous. It is not the act but the actor who has become the Model of great american heroism. Is it any wonder that the chief qualification for Public office is name recognition the Miracle is that an Ordi nary creature like mom Ever made seventh place. Of onion gloom win Hington Post Canadian Man fined for trying to Export rare Fossil of squid Calgary Alberta a a Fossil Digger has pleaded guilty to trying to Export a 200 million year old squid Fossil without a permit violating i Law that restrict the Export of Canada s cultural treasures. Prosecutor Kirk Lambricht said Rene Vande Clde president of Kirilc minerals ltd., brought the squ1 j Fossil and a Large shipment of other fossils and semiprecious stones loan International Mineral show in Tucson ariz., last january. The rare eight Inch Fossil which Drew a bid of $ 11,200 from a japanese buyer finally was sold to Alberta s provincial Tyrrel museum at drum Hollcr Alberta for $3,000. Provincial court judge . Reilly said . Was guilty of a technical breach of the Law and fined him 5500. Vander Clde said outside the court i Only wanted to find out in Tuscon what this thing was really Worth. 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