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Bandel Bezzerides, 20, a straight-A physics major at the University of California at Berkeley and the No. 1 student in a class of 2,352, says he "didn't work too hard for those grades, really." Son of unlettered. Greek immigrant parents, he grew up in Stockton, where his father ran a wholesale produce house. Winning a state scholarship, he startled Berkeley professors with his "knack for understanding something very complex almost immediately, almost offhandedly.'' Though he says that he ''likes people," he shunned all organized campus activity (including last week's commencement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top of the Heap | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...straight-A student at St. James High School, Jerry is no one-sided grind. A strapping, 6-ft. 175-pounder, he is captain of the track and wrestling teams, a star football halfback, and he dabbles in dramatics on the side. Jerry's aim is a doctorate in physics, and a teaching job in a college where he can do research. He is well on the way, having completed eight college semester hours through TV's dawn-breaking Continental Classroom (his grade: A), and he is now finishing another TV course for four more hours of college credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Up from the Farm | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...civic leader who headed the building committee that got Garden City's new Methodist Church translated from hope into brick. His wife Bonnie was active in the Methodist Women's Society of Christian Service. The Clutters' well-behaved, teen-age children, Kenyon and Nancy, were popular, straight-A students at the local high school. Both were scheduled to receive 4-H awards at last week's Finney County 4-H Achievement Banquet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: in Cold Blood | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Born 43 years ago into a wealthy Chicago family (Thor Power Tool Co.), Florsheim was a painfully shy child, channeled all his energies into straight-A scholarship and crude, gloomy art. His father reluctantly helped him get an art education in Europe during the 1930s, but before World War II Florsheim managed to sell just one picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: OUT OF THE NIGHT | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...faster yet in the Rome Olympics next August against the great Australians. Beyond that, her future seems unlimited to her coach, George Haines. "If Chris can keep interested in swimming, she could hit fantastic marks by 1964," he says, then adds almost wistfully: "But she's a straight-A student, and she is already thinking of college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One-Girl Swim | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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