Education: Uncurtain

Ohio State's new football coach, Wes Fesler, is a Phi Beta Kappa. Last month, sounding off against the professionalism of college football in the South, he complained that Southern athletes hardly had to open a book to get a passing grade. Last week Coach Fesler got an answer, Southern style.

One of Fesler's halfbacks, it appeared, had written to a Southern football coach. The Atlanta Journal's Sports Columnist Ed Danforth gleefully reprinted the letter "faithfully, even to the spelling." The letter:

"Dear Coach—To be very truthful with you I am uncurtain as to how to begin this letter. My name you probley see...

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