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P: Grade-school children in Chicago were playing a new numbers game: I Win, a close cousin to rummy, which is supposed to teach them arithmetic. Invented by Gertrude Gebbie, an accountant who wanted to help "children who don't have the patience to learn by rote," / Win has the approval of the Chicago board of education, sells retail at 75-c- a deck. Half a million decks are already in use.

P: Leonard E. Loos, principal of the Euclid (Ohio) Shore Junior High School, complained that schoolteachers as pictured on TV are lowering academic prestige. Said Principal Loos: "How often are a pupil's reactions based on the feeling that his teacher is a scatterbrained Mr. Peepers ... or an irrepressible wag like Our Miss Brooks."

P: In Kentucky, the state legislature pigeonholed a bill that would have made a twelfth-grade education, or higher, a necessary qualification for any citizen seeking election to a school board. One argument against the bill: 87% of all Kentuckians over 25, and 8% of their legislators, would be ineligible to serve.

P: Appointment of the week: Lieut. General Blackshear Morrison Bryan Jr., 54, to succeed Major General Frederick A. Irving in September as the 43rd superintendent of West Point. A strapping Louisianan, "Babe" Bryan is a West Pointer (class of '22, and twice an Army football coach) was the tough but fair assistant provost marshall in charge of all P.W. camps in the U.S. during World War II.

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