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Sunday Track Meet. Bob's athletic prowess is not entirely an accident of birth. His father, a onetime University of Oklahoma all-state football player, is a general practitioner and Tulare's high-school team doctor. The whole Mathias household has always been dedicated to athletics. Brother Eugene, 24, was a promising high-school football star until his career was cut short by a concussion; Jimmy, 18, is an up & coming decathloner (he finished 19th in the nationals); Patricia, 15, the family hopes, will be an Olympic swimmer...
...town of Tulare, Calif, (pop. 14,000) is often called "Mathiasville," in honor of its No. i citizen. Last week, playing host to the U.S. decathlon championship contest for the second time, 5,000 Tulareans packed the stands of the local high-school stadium to watch Olympic Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias in action against 25 topflight U.S. athletes, all aiming for U.S. Olympic berths...
...Mathias totaled 7,825 points (under a new decathlon scoring system), 382 more than his 1950 world record and 770 more than Runner-Up Milton Campbell, an 18-year-old Plainfield, N.J. high-school student.* The victory made Mathias, who did not defend his title last year, the first man in U.S. decathlon history ever to win the event four times...
Teacher Woodring is sure that teachers as a group are no more inclined to the left than the members of any other profession. As for the three Rs, he argues, "we must bear in mind that [in the early 1900s] high-school students were a selected group who presumably averaged higher in ability and in literacy of background than the more inclusive group of today . . ." The question of values is the hardest for any teacher to answer. "It was certainly not the intention of Dewey to eliminate values from the schools," says Woodring. But "if the children are being allowed...
...There is a direct relationship between education and stock ownership. Only 7½% of high-school graduates own stock, compared to 18% of college graduates...