With their Paris schoolboy counterparts are, from left, David Good (Denis Virey) Joseph Uddo (Patrick Peigne) and Charles Reith (Yves De Plache). --- Import Scholars To Sink or Swim -- The best way to learn to swim, they say is to just jump in. One the same premise, the Ecole Classique this week plunged three imported French schoolboys into the classroom without pausing for so much as a s'il vous plait.

Photo is dated 1960.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.