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P:After quizzing 37 "typical" sophomores or. their reading v. TV habits, English Teacher M. Isabelle Hall of the Hope High School in Providence announced that she was about ready to give the whole thing up. "Typical" answers: "I'd rather sit and look than sit and exercise my brain." "Miss Hall, I suffer when I read." "Books give you an idea of how to get into trouble but never tell you how to get out of it." "A masterpiece is something you don't understand." "I'm going to read a book some time. I saw a quiz show and the contestant lost the jackpot because he hadn't read a book." "Who wants to read, Miss Hall? It makes you feel petunia."* P:Amid a cloud of complaints about inflation, the University of Wisconsin found a sliver of a silver lining: diplomas, which cost 55-c- in 1949, 43-c-in 1950 and 36-c- in 1952, have hit a new low--32-c-. P:Appointments of the week: Psychologist Nils Y. Wessell, 39. acting president of Tufts College, to succeed Leonard Carmichael as Tufts' full-fledged president; American Historian Owen Meredith Wilson, 44, onetime associate dean of the college at the University of Chicago and since 1952 secretary of the Ford Fund for the Advancement of Education, to succeed Harry K. Newburn as ninth president of the University of Oregon.

*Local teen talk for sissy.

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