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