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March 1968

Night Owl Gets Diploma

A 1941 high-school dropout makes it at last--and has some fun into the bargain

I READ once that alcoholics tend to have less formal education than other groups of people. The explanation was simply that early drinking problems or emotional difficulties interfere with an individual's classroom performance, causing him to fail or to drop out before graduation. Other potential alcoholics are often under-achievers, managing to get through school, but not exactly setting scholarship records in the process.

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