Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...grew up on Manhattan's tough West Side. When he was in the fourth grade, he hit his teacher "on the francis" with an eraser because she laughed at the way he spelled Philadelphia. When the truant officers found him, ten days later, he was sent to reform school. There he met an Irish kid named Frankie Madden, leader of the Itch Mob. Madden wised him up to the prize ring, persuaded him to become a fighter, let him pose as his kid brother. In 1917, after 131 fights. Battling Joe Madden quit the ring...
...character." His joint was on the map for Yalemen, Park Avenue debs, Long Island's polo crowd. Encouraged by his customers, Joe began to write weekly essays-hard-earned wisdom couched in his own lingo. He had his pieces punctuated by a race-track handicapper with a high-school education, mailed them to his clientele. In ivy-clad Eastern dormitories, Madden's essays had a wider circulation than those of Lamb, Addison or Steele. Today Joe Madden sends his weekly bulletins to 3,000 customers, a select fraternity he fondly calls "the mob." He has published three books...
...education at Columbia University's Teachers College, all her life deplored mankind's inhumanity to geniuses. Eighteen years ago, as an experiment, she picked 50 of the brightest children (I. Q. 130 to 200)* in New York City, started two special classes for them at Public School 165, near Columbia. Like Stanford University's Professor Lewis M. Terman (TIME, Oct. 14), who for 18 years has followed the careers of 1,300 gifted Californians, Dr. Hollingworth watched her "geniuses" as they grew...
Absent from the reunion was an anonymous genius with a more extraordinary career. Second brightest in the whole group, he graduated from, high school at 15, became a professional bridge player-for stakes-was rated the world's No. 7 amateur chess player. At 19 he suddenly gave up gambling, went to University of Chicago, whizzed through a four-year course in a year. At 25, well launched toward a career as a lawyer, he died of cancer...
Other complaints: older classmates in high school and college derided their short pants and childish treble voices; employers failed to recognize them as geniuses, turned them down as too young. The group divided 50-50 on whether segregation in special classes had made them intellectual snobs, agreed that skipping grades had left them with poor study habits...