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Mendelian Long Shot. In his two years at North Texas State College, Moyers was twice top student, twice class president. In summer vacations he worked for Publisher Millard Cope's Marshall News Messenger as a $25-a-week reporter. With his first byline, he dropped the y from his given name, Billy, has never taken it back. Not all of the paper's hands found the scholarly-looking cub a welcome addition. "Just what we needed," grumbled one. "A part-time college boy with neither whisky nor whiskers-one you can't even cuss in front...
...groups, the paper raises what it can on college campuses in the North-about $43,000 to date. Advertising income amounts to an inconsequential $100 a week. The youthful twelve-man staff (down from a summer peak of 18, now that students have returned to college) works for $20-a-week salaries and the sheer exhilaration of it. "Coming down here was about fifty-fifty," says Managing Editor Michael Lottman, 23, on leave from the Chicago Daily News; "half for a good journalistic opportunity, half to do something for civil rights...
...their own. Says the officer-in-charge of the marine contingent: "Nobody minds a man having a ball, as you Americans say, but if he gets a big head because of it, he's expected to keep it under his helmet and do his job." With an $84-a-week road allowance and more party invitations than they can shake a dirk at, the troops find that the helmets fit tightly at times. "We have reports of dancing and some roistering," says Brigadier MacLean, but "touch wood," there have been no complaints about the men's behavior...
Chance in a Clutter. G. & W.'s power source is Chairman Charles Bluhdorn, 39, who has a hard-driving philosophy: "You have to break doors down-anybody can walk through them." A penniless World War II refugee from Austria, he began as a $15-a-week clerk in a Manhattan cotton-brokerage firm, rose to other jobs and founded his own coffee-trading office at 23. Within ten years he had made more than $1,000,000 buying coffee from the Brazilians and selling it to U.S. processors and chain stores. Casting around for a more stable business...
...Nero Over Me." Born in 1903 near Chillicothe, Ohio, Beatty raised rabbits, guinea pigs and skunks as a boy, at 15 responded to the lure of the circus by signing up as a $3-a-week helper. His goal was to be an acrobat, until he twisted an ankle, got a chance to fill in on a polar bear act ("a bear will bite you ten times to a big cat's one"), and began his career as an animal trainer...