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...from Joey herself. It was a simple note of personal triumph. It read: "Dear Mr. Linen. This is it! I thought you might like to know that I made it! I wanted you to rejoice with me." With the note was the announcement that Joey was graduating from the high-school class conducted for patients of the Carville hospital. I asked TIME'S local correspondent Ed Clinton to send us a report on Joey's school career and her graduation...
...wide-brimmed black hats, plain black suits, and beards; the women, plain bonnets and voluminous clothes. For some 35,000 thrifty, hard-working Amish folk, living mostly in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, the Devil is a sleepless foe, whom they dodge by foregoing automobiles, plumbing, cosmetics, store-bought underwear, high-school education and all manner of frivolity. Amish folk seldom break through the black homespun that seems to divide them from their neighbors, but when they do, outsiders get a glimpse of the strange life behind the curtain. Last week Hazleton, Iowa (pop. 550) was still agitated by such...
PROFESSIONAL CLASSES: "The intelligentsia is not respected in the proper way, especially those who belonged to this class before the war. We insisted on university or high-school education in an exaggerated way. We have to be more modest in this respect and not build castles...
...Helsinki last summer, a big (6 ft. 3 in., 210 lbs.) Negro high-school boy from Plainfield, N.J. trudged wearily into a locker room in the Olympic stadium. Worn down by the two-day competition in the Olympics' most demanding test, Decathlon Man Milton Campbell gave World Champion Bob Mathias a congratulatory backslap, then flopped on a cot. Little stirred by his own feat in becoming Olympic runner-up, Milt moaned: "I'd rather die than go through that again...
Genial Republican Thurston, 57, has left a trail of chalk dust behind him. A Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, he started out as a high-school science teacher in Manistee. worked his way up to be Michigan's superintendent of public instruction. A restless, bubbling executive, he ran his 8,000 schools and 42,000 teachers with amiable efficiency. But he was no ordinary bureaucrat: the best way to run a school, he insists, is to have an enlightened local citizenry do the job itself...