Very Good Boy

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. Findings:

> He teases girls.

> He throws snow into his sister's room.

> He once broke three windows, a telegraph wire and a fence while ice-skating in the back yard.

> He wants to be an electrician, a cowboy and an actor.

> He hates arithmetic.

> On his report card he gets B plus in Scholarship, a mediocre B in Effort and Deportment.

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