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When Charles Hopkinson was portraying Calvin Coolidge, he tried to animate the President's Vermont-granite features by inquiring into one of the great crises in Coolidge's life: "What was your first thought, Mr. President, when you heard that Harding had died?" Without any change of expression Coolidge twanged: "I thought I could swing...
...Swahili. Such candid journalism hardly sits well with white officials, who have impounded issues and jailed staffers, sometimes confiscated the cameras of Drum photographers on the ground that any "coloured" with a camera must surely have stolen it. These difficulties do not perturb Drum's Editor Henry Thomas Hopkinson, 54, former editor of the London Picture Post (now defunct), who went to Johannesburg in 1958, regularly entertains native staffers in his home...
...Hopkinson has boosted circulation 40%, plans next year to give Drum readers in Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda their own East African edition, which will be published in both English and Swahili. Eventually, Publisher Bailey and Editor Hopkinson hope, Drum's beat will be heard and understood all over Africa...
...Many of our boys come from homes in the lower income brackets," says Senior Counselor Joseph Hopkinson. "And even though awards to Boston Latin Students have been substantial, they feel that Harvard is out of the question for them...
...impact of Ivy League standards extends down to prep schools and the better public schools. "We would like to have an entrance examination," says Mr. Hopkinson at Boston Latin, "but we have to consider anyone who has a B average in grammar school." Private schools become more selective as their numbers grow. Scholarships aim toward providing economic and geographical diversity, as well as financial aid. Some schools, like Exeter, do not wait for outstanding boys to apply, but actively seek them. In Iowa, for instance, Exeter finds out the names of outstanding newsboys from the Des Moines Register and Tribune...