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Contributing Editor John McPhee, who wrote the story, was able to approach it with the detachment of a Princeton man who got through college before the whole twanging subject loomed so large. He cared more about sports. His father, an M.D. on the Princeton University faculty, is physician to the U.S. Olympics teams. At Princeton, McPhee himself roomed with "the greatest football player" in the U.S. that year, Dick Kazmaier, and when TIME put Kazmaier on the cover in 1951, McPhee, as one of his roommates, was subjected to the kind of TIME interviewing he has later inflicted...
...bright-faced and quick-tongued fellow, McPhee earned his way through college as the "teenage student" member of the Twenty Questions radio and television program, and was the world's oldest living teen-ager when at 22 he gave up dividing the world into animal, mineral and vegetable for profit...
...TIME'S reporting comes from the ends of the earth. Contributing Editor John McPhee, who wrote this week's cover story on Jackie Gleason, had only to pursue his subject a block away-to that upholstered saloon for the rented-Cadillac set called 21. Despite the convenience. McPhee's assignment deserves some kind of endurance prize, for he saw his subject in a gamut of moods: testy, comradely, hostile, candid, suspicious, trusting. Cover Artist Russell Hoban too, spent hours with his man, and sought to catch-in one portrait-some of the restless complexity of Gleason...
Roderick F. McPhee and Theodore R. Sizer have been named assistant professors in the Graduate School of Education, according to Dean Francis Keppel...
Sizer, an historian of education, is Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program. McPhee, whose field is administration, is assisting in development of the University's Administrative Career Program. He came here this fall from Washington, where he helped direct a program for raising national standards in the selection of future school superintendents...