Education: What Ever Became of

By now Stanford Professor Lewis Madison Terman thinks he knows pretty well what becomes of bright boys & girls. Twenty-five years ago he had picked 1,400 of California's prize pupils (with I.Q.s of 140) to watch them grow. Periodically he bombarded them with questionnaires, hopefully read Who's Who to look for their names, and during the war kept up a steady correspondence with those overseas. He has just finished a book about them (The Gifted Child Grows Up), and last week sent the 1,400 a 51-page preview of it.

His chosen 1,400 now average...

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