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Kaufman, 51, was born in New York City, educated at Fordham, and was only 39 when appointed by President Harry Truman to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Since then, he has presided over many a landmark case, but his most agonizing decision came in a capital-punishment trial in 1951. Before he delivered sentence, Kaufman meditated in a synagogue for an entire day, later fainted while considering last-minute appeals. But Irving Kaufman never wavered in his legal determination that Communist Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg should die for having committed a crime...
...Louis, the Rev. William J. Gibbons. S.J.. professor of sociology at Fordham University, told the convention of the American Catholic Sociological Society that U.S. Roman Catholics have been oversold on procreation and undereducated on the responsibilities that go with...
Louis Lefkowitz, Republican, who doggedly fought his way up from an East Side Manhattan slum to Fordham Law School, a city judgeship under Fiorello La Guardia, and a successful private practice, has served 4½ years as a hard-working state attorney general. Elated by the rift in Democratic ranks, New York City's feeble G.O.P. tried first to get either liberal Senator Jacob Javits or personable young Representative John Lindsay to run for mayor. Both refused; the party finally settled on Lawyer Lefkowitz, and picked running mates to produce a ticket that sounds like three parts...
...Hungary, now living in Sweden (Roman Catholic); Physiologist Sir John Carew Eccles, 58, Australia (Roman Catholic); Geneticist Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, 71, England (Church of England); Chemist Giordano Giacomello, 71, Italy (Roman Catholic); Victor Francis Hess, 77, Austrian-born physicist who taught (1938-51) at New York's Fordham University (Roman Catholic); Chemist Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, 63, England (Church of England); Domenico Marotta, 74, director of the Superior Institute of Health, Rome (Roman Catholic). There are no Jews because, according to Academy Chancellor Pietro Salriucci, "there are just not enough eminent Jewish scientists...
Ever since the unknown little quarter-miler and the heralded 880 man from Fordham Prep ran their first races for the Bulldogs in 1959, each Yale meet has been for the Crimson a time of desperate hope--and a time of disappointment...