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Last year his longtime aide, Major General Courtney Whitney, found MacArthur writing in precise, Victorian handscript across page after page of ruled paper. MacArthur explained that he was writing his "reminiscences." The memoirs, completed in six months' time, ran to more than 200,000 words; three installments have appeared in LIFE Magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: MacArthur | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...Peabody is expected to appoint a committee within two weeks to allocate $7 million in federal funds for expanding college facilities, according to Joseph Courtney, Director of Program Planning of the state Office of Administration and Finance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mass. Board Will Allocate College Cash | 3/14/1964 | See Source »

Quiet Brooding. Chief credit for Swarthmore's current drive goes to President Courtney Craig Smith, 47, an Iowa-born Rhodes scholar with a Ph.D. from Harvard, who was teaching English at Princeton when Swarthmore picked him in 1953. A resolutely "academic president," meaning that he shuns fund raising, Smith is a fulltime faculty recruiter. He personally interviews even temporary instructors, says that "what it's all about is how to get a student and a teacher together and ensure that something exciting happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: Swarthmore's 100th | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...Courtney Smith, American secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships and president of Swarthmore College, announced four winners from each of eight sections of the country. Candidates for the scholarship compete in the region either of their school or of their home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Seniors, Three in Eliot, Win Rhodes Competition Scholarships | 12/16/1963 | See Source »

...revisions will reflect the tone expected by the majority is problematical. Barring a last-minute change of heart by Pope Paul, the revisions will still be supervised by Curia cardinals. A case in point is the chapter favoring religious liberty, which was composed in part by U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray. In response to considerable pressure from Italian and Spanish bishops, Pope Paul intends to have it revised by the Theological Commission and its president, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, who is dead set against Murray's ideas on liberty of conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vatican Council: What Went Wrong? | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

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