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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: KENNEDY'S MAN IN HAVANA | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: KENNEDY'S MAN IN HAVANA | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...FORDHAM UNIVERSITY James B. Donovan, attorney who negotiated the Francis Gary Powers-Rudolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos (Cont'd): Jun. 22, 1962 | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: BEST CATHOLIC COLLEGES | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOME AID FOR SECTARIAN SCHOOLS IS CONSTITUTIONAL, HOWE DECLARES | 2/8/1962 | See Source »

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