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WHEN James Britt Donovan finished college, he asked his father to buy him a newspaper. That request was typical of Donovan's positive-thinking approach to life. At New York's Fordham University, where his classmates voted him "best all-round man," he had prepared for a career in journalism, and it seemed sensible to start out as owner-editor-publisher of his own newspaper rather than as a cub reporter on somebody else's. His father, a high-fee New York surgeon, agreed to buy his son a newspaper, but he laid down a condition: James...
...Earl Warren, "no man has undertaken a more arduous and self-sacrificing task." In gratitude. Abel presented Donovan with one of his paintings. Donovan also received a $10,000 fee from somebody behind the Iron Curtain purporting to be Abel's wife. He donated the $10,000 to Fordham, Harvard and Columbia...
...FORDHAM UNIVERSITY James B. Donovan, attorney who negotiated the Francis Gary Powers-Rudolf...
...York City's Jesuit-run Fordham University (10,750 students) opened on a farm in 1841, got engulfed by the spreading city. Among other things, Fordham is noted for its 51-year-old seismic station, the Jesuit quarterly Thought, and schools of law and social service. Headed by urbane, witty Father Laurence J. McGinley, S.J., Fordham is now building a $25 million campus at Manhattan's Lincoln Center...
...seems pretty clear that the study of science at the college level is the same in Catholic and non-Catholic institutions," he added, saying that an aid program would be "unfair" if it helped out Harvard, Columbia, and Vassar while refusing money for Boston College, Holy Cross, and Fordham...