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Sees Definite Change

He sees a definite change for
the better in students since his
days at the University of
Alabama, which he attended
from 1938 to 1942 after
finishing public school in his
home town of Newark, N.J. He
was lured to the University by
a baseball scholarship; however
he quickly adds that he did not
become a star.

"At that time the University
of Alabama was known as the
country club of the deep South
and the University of Virginia
as the country club of the
upper South," he recalls.