Word: hamblin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late bloomers get a new crack at academic training. Says Headmaster William Hamblin of London's Samuel Pepys Comprehensive School: "Last year 150 boys-90% of whom had come here as eleven-plus failures-were able to take the ordinary GCE exam. Four boys, also failures, took the advanced GCE. All four passed and all are now at London University. A tremendous achievement." This year Pepys has 30 sixth-formers poised for university entrance...
...were forged on the premises. Boys have built everything from lawnmowers to kitchens in the workshops. "In this school, the bright boy who wants to take up pottery, or the boy good with his hands who wants to tackle French, can do so as seriously as he likes," says Hamblin...
Other doctors, less crusading, simply worried about medicine's good name. Atlanta's Dr. A. Hamblin Letton, public relations chairman for the Fulton County Medical Society, grumbled that the A.M.A. "is always against something." Dr. Ian Macdonald, secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, stresses that "the most urgent medical problem in the country is the care of the elderly...