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...result is that journalism has little appeal for students. In a 1956 survey of 5,280 high-school boys in the top 5% of their classes, only 1.5% planned careers in the entire communications field; eleven times as many students were interested in science research and 22 times as many planned to become engineers...
...Lawrence Derthick has spent his life in education. Born in a dormitory at Kentucky's Hazel Green Academy, he graduated from Tennessee's Milligan College, immediately took a job as teacher-principal of the consolidated elementary and high school in Greene County. By 1935 he was state high-school visitor for east Tennessee. Four years later he became assistant school superintendent in Nashville; in 1942 he got his present post in Chattanooga...
Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly, 25, a high-school history teacher from Boston, made no concessions to his gimpy left arm (four inches shorter than the right), tossed the 16-lb. hammer to a new Olympic mark...
...best to steer his only son toward big-league baseball. But when Parry was not fooling around on the handy home-town beaches of Santa Monica, Calif., he was proving himself one of the best ends in the state on Santa Monica High's championship football team and toying with the 12-lb. shot at high-school meets. He decided to accept a football scholarship at U.S.C. (major: business administration), where he got standard financial aid: tuition plus $75 a month for doing a job little more demanding than checking each morning to see that the 50-yd. line...
Dean Lawrence H. Chamberlain, in announcing the decision, said Columbia has taken this step in order to meet the rising tide of qualified applicants expected during the next decade. Private colleges, he declared, "cannot ignore the growing pressure on their gates from hordes of high-school graduates...