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...president, Monsignor Jeremiah J. Callahan. Soon President Callahan announced: "The resignation of the Rev. Thomas R. Jones from the faculty . . . has been accepted. He feels ... he has inadvertently placed Duquesne University in an unfavorable light and that his resignation may clarify the situation." Campus consensus was that ardent football fan Father Jones had been punted out. His students staged a strike but it quickly collapsed and Father Jones packed himself off to brood on the discovery that not all football mishaps occur on the gridiron...
...vacancies. To old-line conservatives this was a matter of real concern.* As long as James M. Landis was chairman, the SEC was in the hands of men more or less conciliatory to Wall Street and crusaders were in the minority. This has long been a sore point with ardent New Dealers and last week it was sorer than ever. Forced to resign after disagreement with associates, Kemper Simpson, SEC economic adviser since 1934, furiously ticked off the SEC for relaxing registration requirements, blamed the severity of the current market crash on its laxity...
...attendant of Riverside Church in New York City, of which my wife is a member and as an ardent admirer of its minister, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, I was startled and amused to have her point out his picture to me on p. 69 of the Sept. 6 issue of TIME over the subtitle "Rockefeller Foundation's Fosdick, Money for brains, money for balloons, money for broadcasting." . . . Inasmuch as you have already inadvertently brought Harry Emerson Fosdick along with Raymond Elaine Fosdick onto the pages of your excellent magazine, I cannot resist telling you something about the father...
...honored dead were Forteans: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES - LINCOLN STEFFENS." The magazine also announced that astronomers played down a recent eclipse of Venus by the moon for fear that laymen would discover that the universe is not running according to man-made schedule; that Alexander ("Town Crier") Woollcott is an ardent Fortean who gives away dozens of Fort's books to friends; that Booth Tarkington would discuss Fortism in the next issue. No better and no worse than the rest of the magazine were the words of Charles Fort himself, piously printed from his jumbled notes just as they were...
Also at the University is "Flight From Glory" with Chester Morris and Whitney Bourne, dealing with the lives of outcast aviaters into whose world in the desert is suddenly thrust a woman. Most people are either arch admirers or ardent haters of Chester Morris. Others will find "Flight From Glory" a moderately exciting aero thriller...