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Once the student is spotted, the more difficult task of motivating him begins. Teachers and principals talk with parents and student, trying to stimulate the youngster who previously got no attention; who was able to get by, but unwilling to work...
...Less than 24 hours after she swam a world's record (5:06.7) 440-yd. free-style race at Sydney, Australia's Lorraine Crapp, 17, covered the distance once more, lowered the mark to 5:05.9. In the same pool another Australian youngster, Garry Chapman, 17, won the 220-yd. freestyle with a world record...
...Benson, believed to be the first child ever born with polio in the U.S., was reported showing improvement as he posed for his first photograph with his mother, Mrs. Patricia Benson, a 26-year-old Madison, Wis. graduate nurse who was stricken with polio when she was pregnant. The youngster's birth was normal, but he was born with paralysis of both legs and the left arm. This fact upset the generally accepted theory that a child does not contract polio in the womb...
Only four summers ago, Ike Eichelberger was a skinny youngster who knew little about Turkish or any other methods. Along with a crowd of other high-school hopefuls, he appeared at Lehigh for a week-long wrestling clinic. Coach Gerald Leeman worked hard with him, and helped Ike to get a scholarship (which Ike keeps by holding his engineering grades up to a commendable B-minus). Today the 5 ft. 7 in. champ weighs close...
Just as Uncle Bob planned, Bill grew up to be a southpaw. But baseball was forgotten when the family moved to Oakland, Calif. Like any other youngster. Bill tried to imitate his older brother, who was a flashy, high-school basketball player. On the court Bill was ambidextrous, but he was mostly Pogo-stick legs and gawky elbows, too awkward to make the regular team until his senior year...