Education: Supt. Kersey Goes to War

A fireball among educators is bounding Vierling Kersey, superintendent of Los Angeles' public schools. Superintendent Kersey is now attacking his country's enemies with everything he has, not excepting the kitchen sink. Last week he unlimbered a couple of new weapons and showed the U.S. an amazing example of a school system waging all-out war.

> Mr. Kersey, who bubbles in a hyphenated language of his own, told his school principals that he proposed to make his students "the most health-adequate youth in America." He ordered a physical checkup of Los Angeles' 10,000 high-school...

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