Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barely passed in history, but he did absorb a few ideas: the American revolutionary slogan, "No Taxation Without Representation," echoed in his mind, and he wrote an enthusiastic paper on Napoleon-"Here was a man who defied the whole world." Later, at the Holy Ghost College (high school) at Mangu, he learned about Abraham Lincoln and Booker T. Washington. But the missionaries discouraged his political questions and, irritated, he abandoned his plans to enter a seminary, forming a bitterness toward the church that he retains to this day, though he still considers himself Catholic ("My disagreements are not with...
Into Thompson Hall at Teachers College of Columbia University trooped some 60 graduate students for a final examination on mental hygiene. Of those who took that exam last January, one was a ghost: a "Mike Benson" had been hired for $40 to substitute for a student uncertain of his own ability to pass. "Mike Benson" was, in fact, New York World-Telegram & Sun Reporter Alex...
...Manhattan college student. Benson decided to follow up. Posing as a well-educated chap named Mike Benson, he got in touch with the agency that had hired his friend, also sent letters to nine other agencies advertising in the Sunday Times. Benson's first overture produced the ghost test-taking assignment at Columbia's Teachers College. His letters produced a response from a midtown Manhattan agency-whose proprietor promptly made Benson an equal partner...
Cinch for the Sit-in. Although New York educators had long suspected the existence of the ghost-scholar racket, they were still understandably upset by Benson's evidence. Said Dr. Hollis L. Caswell, president of Teachers College: "The general moral tone in our country is tending to encourage this sort of thing. It is a little like our attitude toward the income tax-if you can get by with it, it is all right." Columbia might have been equally concerned at the facility with which Newsman Benson, himself an admittedly indifferent undergraduate student (Class of '49, with...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Ghost Bomber: Lady Be Good recreates the life and death of the U.S. B-24 bomber that disappeared over Italy during World War II and was discovered in the Libyan desert 16 years later...