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William Hunter, 14, lived with his mother and stepfather in Paterson, N. J. A sixth-grader, a lanky boy with a triangular face and messed-up sandy hair, he had an ordinary reputation in the neighborhood-a little behind in his schoolwork, just got a new typewriter, attended Sunday school regularly, was not allowed to run around at night and/or talk back to his mother...
...Cameron, Mo.. Third-Grader Lawrence Clark went to the editor of the local paper with a problem. He "loved his teacher most of anything," and would like to send her a kiss if he only could think how. The editor managed it. On page i he printed an affidavit of Lawrence's kiss for Miss Anna Marie McLaughlin...
...such second-grader is athletic, tooth-brush-mustached William Primrose, who plays the principal viola part in Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony. Last week Primrose temporarily added himself to the world-famed Budapest Quartet (TIME, Nov. 13) to play quintets for Manhattan's persnickety New Friends of Music...
Many of these young propagandists adopted the cartoonist's and caricaturist's method. A sixth-grader conceived Japan as a silkworm just fallen off a mulberry leaf (entitled He Overate!); one Chune Fook did a heart-rending distortion of two famine victims. Judged best was Ernest Louie's deadly earnest, broad-stroked water color of a Chinese family fleeing in terror from a bombed village. Ernest, a 16-year-old Clevelander, reads the papers...
...does not take supernatural intuition to detect him. He answers questions like a robot, not thinking for himself, but speaking words put into his mouth. He uses cliches like the "psychology of the business man"--Wolff's contribution to Economics A--until the grader, coming across it for the twentieth time, cannot help but see its origin. And cannot help but grade accordingly...