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...doctor," a species of tonic peddler who "thee'd" and "thou'd" dollars out of rubes' back pockets-and, naturally, had no connection with the Society of Friends. He learned early the bases of his calling-how to exploit hypochondria, and how to aggravate the bone-bred dislike of the ignorant for honest physicians ("Don't let your doctor two-dollar you to death," he was to thunder later...
...Wayne's astonished teachers, many of them refugees from big-name colleges, the atmosphere is reminiscent of the days when World War II veterans hit the campuses. What delights Anthropologist Richard Waterman, for example, is his students' experience-bred theses, on subjects that range from the effects of automation to a study of Detroit's homeless men. "The kids keep asking questions," says Waterman. "And where else could you get 200 state university students to turn out for a little-advertised talk by some New School cat from New York...
...spearfishing championship (done with held breath alone) was won by California's rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.) Terry Lentz, 22, who landed 15 fish weighing 106 Ibs. One of the finest free divers in the world is Security Analyst Peter Gimbel, 32, husky, Yale-bred scion of the department-store family. As a boy, Gimbel sat on the bottom of his parents' pool with a five-gallon can over his head, gulping air from a garden hose. He grew up to become a crack ocean diver, swam on the first team to reach the Italian liner...
Nonetheless, the Ph.D. shortage is being tackled with burgeoning success by the Princeton-bred Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, which aims to make professors out of able college students as fast as possible. The recruiters are 900 faculty members throughout the country, who help nominate bright seniors for hard-eyed grilling by 15 regional committees of scholars. The prize: one year of graduate study at any university in the U.S. or Canada. No small change, the award carries a $1,500 stipend, family allowances and the full cost of tuition...
...architect. "I have spent hours staring at St. Peter's," says he, "and I've now decided that Delia Porta was wrong in his elevation of the curve of the dome. It may have all kinds of effect on my work." Rome has also transformed Princeton-bred Musician John Eaton 24, who in his younger days barnstormed the U.S. with a jazz combo. Eaton has set John Donne's sonnets to music, launched a three-hour opera based on Sophocles' Trachiniae and Seneca's Hercules Oetaeus. "I hated this oriental city the first month," says...