When I was a kid, the magazine that came with the Sunday paper would once a year give a list of the world's most admired persons. The first time I read one, I c

When I was a kid, the magazine that came with the Sunday paper would once a year give a list of the world's most admired persons. The first time I read one, I couldn't understand the criteria, and asked my parents. They said, Oh, it's about name recognition--people start fishing their memories for names, and the overlap polls highest.