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...Deliberate fraud and probable forgery" in academic admission records at City College of New York, where one player's high-school average of 70.62% was raised to 89.4%, and another's was raised ten points, to make them eligible for admission, i.e., to play on C.C.N.Y.'s basketball team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lifting the Curtain | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

Bruce now knows more about the basic principles of sound, air pressure, oxidation and leverage than the run of high-school graduates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Truant Teacher | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

Kazmaier brothers have followed and fostered Dick's athletic career with expert eyes, though neither they nor Dick's high-school coach ever dreamed they had an All-America performer in their backyard. Dick's father, his foremost fan, who constantly admonishes his son not "to get a swelled head," hops into the family's 1951 Chevrolet almost every weekend and drives the 600-odd miles from Maumee to watch his son play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 42 | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

Touchback. In Bridgeport, Ohio, when parents complained that members of the high-school football squad were undergoing too strenuous training, Coach Al Blat-nik put them to playing drop the handkerchief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 5, 1951 | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

Died. Frederick Bezner, 73. millionaire co-founder (with seven others) in 1909 of the Hudson Motor Car Co., now the fifth biggest in the U.S.; in Darien, Conn. After he failed to return from his usual afternoon walk, his butler notified police. With the help of bloodhounds and high-school students organized for the search, they found him where he had collapsed on the beach, still conscious but dying from exposure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 29, 1951 | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

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