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...springy new Fiberglas vaulting pole, pushed himself over the bar at 15 ft. 1½ in. Trying for 15 ft. 1½ in., Brewer knocked down not only the bar but both standards as well, quit for the afternoon, satisfied with his record as the first U.S. schoolboy ever to pole vault...
...little known but of great importance: vibratory and two-point discrimination sense. The vibratory sense is lodged in bone, which can feel the vibration of a tuning fork even when surrounding tissue cannot. Two-point discrimination (in itself a two-part sensory apparatus) can best be demonstrated with a schoolboy's compass whose steel and pencil points are an inch apart. Held against the back, this feels like a single object -the skin of the back has little two-point discrimination, and may need to have the compass spread three or four inches. But the hand can distinguish...
...winners. In terms of showmanship, we had to work out the ideal timing and the ideal winner." The producers chose 70-year-old Mrs. Ethel Richardson of Los Angeles, a folk-song buff. For a switch, they decided the next big winner should be a young schoolboy. They settled on 14-year-old George L. Wright III of Manhattan...
...their mastery of the situation, the quiz producers seem helpless before the major ailment afflicting their shows. The sum of $64.000 no longer inspires audience awe. Viewers have become so blase that the producers arbitrarily changed their rules to enable Schoolboy Strom to win as much as $256,000, and devised new rules to let Clerk Nadler keep winning too. More important, a kind of inflation has also hit the contestants: instead of the kind of ordinary people who struck a responsive chord in viewers, they now run to narrow specialists and photographic minds-"freaks," as the trade calls them...
More or less to the measure of The Wearin' o' the Green, the following verse, illustrated by schoolboy art, was inscribed on the walls of the jakes (John) at Saint Michan's College, near Belfast...