New Leaf

At 46, Arthur L. Thexton was a model business executive. He was making $30,000 a year as vice president of a Cincinnati manufacturing company. Last November, Arthur Thexton asked his business friends a surprising question: What would they think of his going back to school? "I was afraid [they'd] think I was nuts or something," fays Thexton. But they didn't. Some of them even confessed to the same itch.

Arthur Thexton quit his job, enrolled at Columbia to get an M.A. As a college boy at Williams, he had been able to get along by scribbling down a few notes in class. Now, he takes down everything his lecturers say, spends hours each night going over his notes. Says he: "At my age it is much harder to retain the stuff than it was at 19." A member of Cincinnati's reform Charter Party, he wants to teach college courses in government.

Next year his wife, who left medical school to get married, is going back to school herself--to become a laboratory technician.

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