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WASHINGTON, SEPT. 18 (UP)-President Eisenhower turned truant officer today while seeing Vice President Nixon off on a campaign trip...
...track. With his John Zink Special, almost an exact copy of last year's winner, 30-year-old Pat Flaherty had already spun through his trial heats fast enough to set a one-lap record: 146.056 m.p.h. In the big test itself, freckle-faced Flaherty, a truant from his Chicago taproom, felt sure that he had "the horses" to outrun his competitors. The trick was to stay in front of trouble...
...penetration of Freudian theory. A social worker visiting a family with health and welfare problems looks for unhealthy father-son or mother-daughter relationships. The probation officer reporting on a juvenile delinquent discusses the family background with the court in terms of aggression and compensation. So does a truant officer. In Wheeling, W. Va. last week, Thomas Williams Jr., 14, was found legally sane, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a nine-year-old boy after two psychiatrists appointed by the court had declared him insane. He had a romantic attachment to his mother and a desire...
...from Manhattan's slums to his high skill as a professional boxer was filled with pitfalls. As a boy Floyd was "a lonely, disturbed and defiant being-the third in a family of eleven children, whom his parents, for all their toil, could barely feed." He was a truant. He ran with store-breaking gangs. Eventually his mother had him committed to an institution for problem children. He was 14, a tall, skinny welterweight, when he first found Cus D'Amato's Gramercy Gymnasium & Health Club on Manhattan's Lower East Side. He climbed "the long...
...Probation. In North Bergen, N.J., Superintendent of Schools Walter A. Miller Jr. reported to the board of education that George Scheuermann, 80-year-old chief truant officer, appointed to the post in 1910, has not been showing up for work, concluded soberly: "Our investigation shows that he is not the best...