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...Regrets. Alan Lubliner, who had been an introverted bookworm with straight-A grades through junior high suddenly blossomed into an articulate leader in Denver's George Washington High. He became editor of the school newspaper, president of the Denver "Youth for Kennedy" organization, and class valedictorian-but his grades slipped just a shade. As a result, Harvard and Cornell passed Alan over "I don't understand it," complained Alan's father, a hard-driving businessman...
Prophetic Number. A college professor's son, born in North Dakota and raised in California, Bell has always been smart. Once, when he brought home his inevitable straight-A report card, his mother remarked: "It doesn't mean a thing. You were born that way." Bell got an M.A. in economics at Harvard in 1941,tutored there for a year, then went to Washington as a Budget Bureau analyst. After wartime service as a Marine intelligence officer, he returned to the Budget Bureau, moved on to become a White House assistant and one of Truman...
Happily unflustered was the culprit: Senior Jessica Moore, 17, the straight-A student editor of Talon, who had simply picked Marx's maxim out of Bartlett's Familiar (but not everywhere) Quotations. "If anyone other than Marx had said it," she remarked sensibly, "there wouldn't have been any excitement." Then Jessica went off to accept a long-scheduled honor: a citizenship award from the Memphis branch of the D.A.R...
Michigan State University's Ted Petrie, 21, is the first student in M.S.U. history to graduate with a straight-A record. Son of a foreman at an Oldsmobile forge plant in Lansing, Petrie sagged below A only twice in high school (B's in gym and English literature) "because I didn't work." At M.S.U., where he eased the financial pinch by living at home and working summers as a lifeguard, he found time for swimming, handball and bottle-ball as well as math. Awarded hefty grants for undergraduate research by the National Science Foundation, Petrie...
James Edward Gunn, 22, is a summa cum laude graduate in math and physics at Rice University, the Southwest's toughest campus. A straight-A high school graduate, Gunn attended Rice on a four-year scholarship, won a peck of academic prizes. "I've never been able really to determine the limits of his ability,'' says one physics professor. "I've never been able to ask him an exam question that he can't give a perfect answer to.'' Except for the astronomy club, Gunn steered clear of extracurricular activities, studied...