Najma Najafi — a social worker in Iran, 26 years old. She studied in America but returned to her country to apply her theories of reform in reviving villages, in her village of Sarbandan, where she did the impossible to better the condition of women and children in the family — known for her book: "Iran Is My Heart."

5 — Blanche Lemco — an engineer specializing in city planning; she has worked in Canada, England, and France, and is now on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She won a prize in her branch at the "Congress of the International Federation for Housing and Town Planning."

6 — Jacqueline Hawkins — a teacher of English in one of the great secondary schools of the United States. She is 23 years old, and with her pupils she managed to study the situation of juvenile offenders and to succeed in persuading the authorities to decree the necessary reforms.

— Diana Chang — a Chinese writer, born in America but raised in China; after the Second World War she returned to the United States, where she published her book "The Fortresses of Love," which was judged a novel of the first order. In America she now publishes her novels and her poems, having graduated with honors from Barnard College and from the Sorbonne in France.

8 — Mary Douglas — a fashion designer. She began as a worker in a dress factory, then advanced to seamstress, and finally to fashion designer...

She excelled at adapting the new fashion to the tastes and needs of the general public, so that it pleases everyone.

9 — Doris Day — an actress. She first shone in Hollywood as a singer in light roles, but she won fame only lately, when she moved on to the new roles, as heroine of "The Man Who Knew Too Much." And last year five thousand of her song records, recorded for the radio, were sold.