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...college days at Amherst. Gilmore came to the University in 1932 for his doctorate, and except for several excursions to Europe and the war years, he has been here ever since. Yet he still preserves his respect for a small college's close tie between teacher and pupil...
TIME has a few editors who attended one-room country schools. It even has one who went to a one-pupil schoolhouse. He is Associate Editor James C. Keogh, who wrote this week's cover story on Governor Averell Harriman...
...Keogh, who was born 39 years ago on a 280-acre farm in Platte County, Neb., was eleven and in the seventh grade in 1928 when he was the lone pupil in District 42 School in Burrows Township. With the undivided attention of Teach er Elizabeth Liebig, he studied seventh and eighth-grade lessons simultaneously. In between, he argued politics with Teacher Liebig: she was for Prohibition and against Al Smith; he was for Smith, against Prohibition...
...most noise emanates from a barrel-shaped pupil named Leo. This is not because Leo is an inferior student, but simply because he was once a professional wrestler. When anyone else wishes a hold broken, he simply taps his partner or the mat. But not Leo. He writhes, moans, gushes his teeth, and pounds his head until an instructor directs the partner to break...
Maestro. In Manchester, England, after an inept pupil backed the learner's car onto a sidewalk, Auto Instructor Handel Andrew indignantly took the wheel, promptly smacked into a lamppost, was fined ?3 ($8.40) for careless driving...