Education: Prodigy

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Last week the Detroit press discovered a child prodigy. Youngest of a Detroit musician's three children, wide-eyed, curly-haired George Washington Lovett, 4½, has an uncanny memory. He can sing or hum 3,000 pieces of music from popular tunes to grand opera, can name and date all the U. S. Presidents, bound every European country, tell the population of every large city in the world, names and distances from the earth of all the planets, the political effects of Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown. the batting averages of all the baseball stars. He has also taught himself to read, write and use the typewriter, knows the Italian, French, German and Greek alphabets, reads people's minds. Interviewed by a sportswriter, George unhesitatingly predicted the winner of the Kentucky Derby: Stagehand.