Word: dropouts
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...course, You Can't Take It With You is still propelled by the zany character of the Sycamore family. Grandfather (Donald Moffat) is a business dropout who has devoted 35 years to raising a small colony of snakes in a goldfish tank in the living room. He is related to uncribbed spirits and surrounded by live-in transients. These errant moles of home industry manufacture and explode Fourth-of-July fireworks unperiodically, do ostrichy parodies of ballet, and massacre Beethoven on the xylophone. It does not dawn...
Merlyn Francis Mickelson, 38, of Minneapolis, a high school dropout and former disk jockey, has exploited a high degree of ability in a specialized technical field. He is president and 75% owner of Fabri-Tek Inc., a $16 million-a-year company that is the nation's largest manufacturer of memory cores for computers. His stock holdings in the firm are worth $47 million...
...drive-in movie, Schmid took him out on the desert again, showed him the Fritz girls' corpses-only one was even partially buried-and boasted that he had killed them. Acting on Bruns's story, Tucson police rounded up John Saunders, a 19-year-old high-school dropout who had moved to Connecticut, and Mary French, another 19-year-old dropout who was living with her family in Texas, brought them back and got their grisly stories...
...fellow who escaped the stigma of being a high school dropout only by never dropping in, James R. Jones, 37-year-old Grand Dragon of the North Carolina realm of the Ku Klux Klan, lives mighty high on the hog. Though he never progressed past grammar school and has worked until recently as a lightning-rod salesman, Jones, who lives in Granite Quarry, N.C., drives a 1964 Cadillac as well as a 1964 station wagon, and seemingly has plenty of spending money. Soon, if all turns out as planned, Night Rider Jones will become a night flyer...
...receive the same benefit, and the employment service has offices set up on many campuses. As further aids, the service puts out a Dictionary of Occupational Titles, which describes and classifies some 22,000 jobs, and an information kit that includes sample letters to prospective employers. The high school dropout gets even more solicitous attention...