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Kaiser was quietly proud that he was successful in spite of being a high-school dropout. He left school in upstate New York at 13 to help support the family. Henry worked his way West, signed on with a paving contractor, established his own company at 32, and lined up his first contract-for two miles of street in Vancouver. Because speed was worth money, he always made it a point to finish jobs ahead of time; on a California paving contract he laid a mile a week instead of the usual two miles a month, was constantly visited...
...Massachusetts-born Geisel has a B.A. degree from Dartmouth and studied at Oxford University, but has had no art training since walking out on a high-school art teacher who refused to let him draw with his drawing board turned upside down. A cartoon of egg-nog-drinking turtles that he sold to Judge magazine in 1927 financed his marriage to fellow Oxford Student Helen Palmer, who helps him develop his story lines. His career got a big boost when his advertising cartoons for an insecticide made the caption "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" a common household quip...
...Harvard varsity track team obliterated an almost non-existent Dartmouth squad, 135-18, at Soldiers Field Saturday, but freshman Royce Shaw supplied the excitement to the non-contest with a spectacular 4:07.4 mile. Shaw's freshman record, five seconds below his high-school best and only one second off Mark Mullin's varsity record, put him in sight of the most magical of all barriers, the four minute mile...
...most often during spring riots) campus police will request Cambridge help. The Cambridge police answer the call, but both parties regard such intervention as a courtesy service rather than an assertion of authority. University cops just as frequently help out their Cambridge counterparts. Last Thanksgiving, eight University policemen battled high-school rioters in the Square when Cambridge Police found themselves undermanned. "We have a good working relationship," says Tonis. "They can help us and we can help them...
...Coffee and Sour Cream," a one-hour drama on an inter-racial romance marred by a Negro gang, was written by members of Roxbury's Teenage Action Group. It is the first time a play written entirely by a high-school group will appear at the Loeb...