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...mules and dogs can park themselves in a House Beautiful driveway to die, and where the black principal of a segregated school turns out the greatest high school marching band in the nation. At 22 Harriman is a seasoned eccentric-ex-trumpet prodigy, pistol-packing fantasist and medical-school dropout. He has also grown obsessed with the legend of Geronimo, the Apache warrior who lived by his own laws. By the time Hannah's rascally hero moves on from Elvis Presley to the murder of Medgar Evers, he has gone the route from private inrage to public outrage...
...televised hearings and on talk shows, fellow newsmen want to interview him, and the reigning powers that he assaults seem powerless before him. For roughly 9,999 newsmen out of 10,000, that vision remains forever fantasy, but for Jack Northman Anderson it has all come true. A college dropout with no intellectual pretensions, a relentless square whose biggest indulgences are a Sunday-afternoon nap and a second ice-cream cone for dessert, a clumsy writer who has yet to put together any memorable combination of words, he has nonetheless emerged in the past dozen weeks as the pre-eminent...
...Eight years ago I was a housewife, a mother, a college dropout. Today I'm still a housewife and mother, but I'm also teaching English at a university and working on a doctoral dissertation...
Nonetheless, a few myths have fallen by the wayside. There has been no discernible loss of intellectual quality. Men have not dropped off in their studies because of the "distraction" of girls. The dropout rate for the women is only half that of the men (2.3% v. 4.4%). The women have higher grades-and the proportion of those going on to graduate school is about equal to that of men. Significantly, perhaps, more girls than boys choose law schools (17% v. 15%), a percentage far higher than the national norm...
Salesman. The son of a lumber surveyor who died of alcoholism, Joey was a school dropout at 15. His first full-time job was as a reporter for a newspaper in St. John's. Smitten with socialism, he emigrated to New York City, where he wrote inflammatory stories for the socialist daily Call. Returning to Newfoundland in 1925, Joey became a labor leader and at one point "walked myself down to skin and grief" over 600 miles of railroad track to organize the section...