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...Whitman, Mass., where his father ran a grocery, Spellman gave no early hint of religious vocation. He attended public elementary and high schools, helped in his father's store, worked one summer as a conductor on the local trolley line. At New York's Jesuit-run Fordham University he was a conscientious but hardly brilliant student, a debater, and an earnest poet. Only on the eve of graduation did he decide to enter the priesthood. Ordained in 1916, he went to Rome as translator for a Boston bishop in 1925, so impressing Pope Pius XI that...
Limping Along. Fordham Dean James R. Dumpson, who led an AID-sponsored month-long tour of refugee centers, estimated that the war has left nearly 2,000,000 South Vietnamese homeless. Some are North Vietnamese looking for a better life in the South. Many lowland peasants and mountain people flee their villages to escape Viet Cong control or because they are in the path of combat operations. Others are forced to move from battle areas by the government. Nearly half are children. Plowing into AID-staffed centers at the rate of 38,000 a month, the refugees are turning...
...York's Fordham University wanted a headliner for its liberal arts program, and it picked a winner. For a $30,000 salary, plus $70,000 for research assistants, the adventurous Roman Catholic university got Canada's self-styled Mind-Massager Marshall McLuhan, 56, to come down for a year's guest professorship. In his very first lecture, McLuhan told his 178 students that the Viet Nam war is "an all-outeducational effort" and that TV is "an Xray machine." The one student who tried to take notes dissolved in utter confusion. But the rest were turned...
...line, he has been calling several of the nation's loftier cultural institutions, trying to get them to accept as a gift his $5,000,000 Gallery of Modern Arton Manhattan's Columbus Circle. The star-crossed A. & P. heir first sought to benefact Columbia and Fordham universities, which hastened to decline when they got a load of the museum's $3,800,000 mortgage and $500,000 yearly upkeep; now he hopes that some philanthropic soul like Uncle Sam will enable the Organization of American States to accept his charity. On the other phone, meanwhile, Hartford...
...about it in Rendezvous by Submarine), promptly set about rebuilding. By 1963, Grimm, Parsons and colleagues were able to sell their 50% interest for $6.6 million to a group of Filipino businessmen and investors headed by Jose B. Fernandez, now 43 and the company's chairman. U.S.-educated (Fordham, Harvard Business School) and a member of a wealthy Manila family, Fernandez tapped as president a young American: Donald I. Marshall, 37, son of one of Lusteveco's prewar managers and a Lusteveco staffer who joined the company afer graduating from Stanford Business School...