Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Bill Waterhouse, a senior at Denver's East High School, the College Board examinations were a breeze. Last week school officials looked at Bill's scores for scholastic achievement tests taken in March, read the results with astonishment: perfect 800s in English, chemistry and advanced mathematics...
...thinking; a test that takes most students 40 minutes is a five-to-ten-minute affair for Bill. He never had a formal biology course, and quite a bit of the general aptitude tests are based on biology. He said, 'Oh, I got a book and read it.' He can see right to the crux of a matter. He'll be a great research...
Politics was not the only problem that ever bothered Larry Adler. For a long time there was the matter of talent. The son of a Baltimore plumber, he was tossed out of the Peabody School of Music in short order. Diagnosis: a tin ear. He was 13 when he read that the Baltimore Sun was sponsoring a harmonica contest. He spent three weeks teaching himself to play, won, and wasted little time heading for New York...
...long while show business was tough indeed. Larry was in Chicago looking for work when he read a Variety ad: Sid Grauman was casting in Hollywood. A wire went out to Grauman: THE WORLD'S GREATEST HARMONICA PLAYER IS AT THE CHICAGO THEATER. The Wire Was signed "Louie Lipstone," the name of the head man at the Chicago Theater. Next morning, mildly conscience-stricken, Adler went around to explain. He walked in on a telephone conversation. "But I didn't send you a wire!" Lipstone was shouting. Then he saw the harmonica player. He covered the mouthpiece...
...hogs,' " explained the editor. "We don't say 'not intended for human consumption'; we say 'not fit to eat.' We try to remember that we're telling a story to a man who doesn't have much time to read and no big library handy to look up the odd words...