Four years ago, Cornelius Alexander Horton, 6, had his picture taken. It was published in an annual picture-report by New York City's School Superintendent Harold George Campbell. "A Very Good Boy."
Last week the city's 38,000 schoolteachers, polled by Dr. Campbell, overwhelmingly chose "A Very Good Boy" as their favorite picture. Next day, in Brooklyn, a New York Times reporter and a cameraman found the boy who had posed for it. Cornelius Alexander Horton was now 10. Reputation: "A holy terror."
While he posed for the cameraman, the Timesmen made a case study of apple-cheeked, Master Horton....
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