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Dime a Week. Even as a youngster, Cornfeld showed some of the hustle that has become a major ingredient of I.O.S.'s success. He was born in Istanbul to a Rumanian father and Russian mother, who brought him to the U.S. when he was four. Growing up in Brooklyn during the Depression, with a 10?-a-week allowance. Bernie worked nights and weekends to earn trolley fare to school. Later he attended tuition-free Brooklyn College, where he turned socialist and gathered thousands of signatures on Norman Thomas-for-President petitions in 1948. After taking a master...
...prematurely-and the sensitively modeled face confirms the epitaph. More characteristic of Saint-Gaudens' portraiture is the low relief of the children of New York Lawyer Prescott Hall Butler. To the two sturdy boys in their Scottish kilts, the sculptor has brought the understanding of a psychologist. The youngster on the left looks ahead, stolid and unafraid, but his older brother is already touched with care, and places his arm protectively around the younger. Dr. Henry Shiff, an intimate of Saint-Gaudens, was a surgeon in the Confederate Army who retired to Rome after the Civil War and there...
...Third Air Force at Tampa, Fla. After the war, Oklahoma Coach Jim Tatum had little trouble persuading the slight (5 ft. 11 in., 158 lbs.) quarterback to come home and try his hand at college ball. In 1947, Royal's sophomore year, Tatum was replaced by a youngster named Bud Wilkinson. Under Wilkinson's guidance Royal was named All-America quarterback in 1949. But the pro scouts considered him small, and he drifted into coaching. He held seven different jobs in eight years and eventually wound up as head coach at the University of Washington in 1956. Then...
...Your cover story on drugs [Sept. 26] makes it manifestly clear that today's youngster has something in his gizzard...
...British magazine Encounter, Bettelheim spells out his ideas, which have been raising controversy at academic conferences and press conferences for the past six months. Among them: > "When I see some of these students -'unwashed' and 'unkempt'-I cannot help thinking: There goes another youngster who, as an infant, was practically scrubbed out of existence by his parents in the name of good hygiene and loving care." > "In most of the small group of leaders of the radical left, intellect was developed at much too early an age, and at the expense of their emotional development. Although...