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...watching his Kent School (Conn.) crew sprinting to victory past an English shell on the Thames, the Rev. Frederick H. Sill decided that British schoolboys ought to get a chance to visit the U.S. Last week chubby, blond Anthony Stewart Arnold was back in England, after a year at Kent on one of the Schoolboy Scholarships started by Father Sill 20 years ago. Like other young Britons who had made the trip last year, 18-year-old Tony Arnold thought that U.S. prep schools were great fun to visit-but no place to get an education...
...Communism and his Communist party-lining before they could be thrown at him. No matter how hard the reporters tried, he said, "I am not going to engage in Red-baiting . . ." That still left one interesting question: Did Wallace write (in 1934) the fawning, fantastic Guru letters, full of schoolboy mysticism and "secret" pet names, to the late Nicholas Roerich, a fork-bearded Russian artist, explorer, and cultist (TIME, Dec. 29)? For months Columnist Westbrook Pegler had been trying to provoke a yes or no from Wallace...
...many years John Hancock has needed no other credentials than the flourishing signature (twice the size of anyone else's) with which he signed the Declaration of Independence. Many a schoolboy has heard what Hancock reportedly said then: "There! John Bull can read my name without spectacles, and may now double his reward of ?500 for my head. That is my defiance." It was enough to make John a bona fide hero in all textbooks, engravings on schoolroom walls, and advertisements for a prominent insurance company. But obviously there was more to be said...
Major General Vasily Stalin, 28, a backward son when a schoolboy, demonstrated last week that he has learned to recite perfectly: "Every participant in the coming aviation parade [which was later rained out and postponed a week] will demonstrate his love and gratitude to the creator and organizer of all victories and successes of the Soviet people, the best friend of Soviet aviators, the wise, brilliant commander and generalissimo of the Soviet Union, Joseph V. Stalin...
...took kicks at the ball when he missed easy shots. He fell a great many times and got up very slowly. London's Daily Telegraph tried to be charitable: "Should we not be nearer the truth in regarding his behavior more in the light of an overgrown schoolboy than as a schemer trying to steal a rest...