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...nine, and promptly defeated a platoon of Army officers in simultaneous play at West Point. Then, when he was eleven, someone discovered that the boy wonder had never attended school. Merchant Julius Rosenwald, a Patzer and philanthropist, soon remedied this defect. Six months of tutoring brought Reshevsky up to high-school level and he went on to graduate from the University of Chicago. Except for a flair for mathematics, he was just an average student...
Critic Kronenberger has been enjoying such exercise for the past 14 years. His interest in the theater goes back much farther-to his teen-age days in Cincinnati. The theaters there hired high-school students as ushers, paid them by letting them see the show. By working once a week, Usher Kronenberger got to see all the plays that came to Cincinnati. A few years later he arrived in New York City and began seeing every show he could...
Observers at the opening festivities yesterday were impressed by the collective charm of this year's crop. Gone was the old, familiar naive, high-school type and replacing it was a brand of sophistication formerly known only to Radcliffe freshmen. College men nonplussed by the harrowing dating conditions at 'Cliffe will now be able to look forward to this new weekend potential...
...Kiewit (pronounced key-wit), whose builder father left a small company with $25,000 in assets to three sons, has been moving mountains of earth since he took over the company in 1931. He got up from a hospital bed to do so. Young Kiewit, who learned bricklaying in high-school days and quit Dartmouth as a freshman to become a builder, had been stricken by phlebitis followed by serious complications. After lying on his back in a hospital for nine months, he decided: "If I'm going to die. I might as well die working...
...three days the classified ad ran in Chicago newspapers. It brought in no gallons of stale water. A Decatur cistern was tapped for a 29-year-old sample. The water heater of a high-school teacher in Oak Park yielded 30 gallons between five and twelve years old. An undertaker emptied his fire extinguisher and a grocer drained the soda pop cooler he had not cleaned for five years...