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Such heights are far removed from Manhattan's Lower East Side, where Winston was born and reared, the son of an immigrant from Odessa. Young Winston went to the College of the City of New York ('20) and Fordham Law School, raised a $50,000 stake in the export-import business, shrewdly started horse trading in real estate. In the Depression Winston confidently bought large blocks of land on city fringes, watched his wallet grow fat as the population shifted to the suburbs...
...four Mau Mau), were not the product of an overheated Latin imagination. He has never been nearer to Italy than the pasticcerie of Manhattan's West Side, where he grew up. Guido Panzini's real name is Pat Harrington Jr. Now 29, he came to TV via Fordham, the U.S.A.F. and the NBC mailroom. Off camera, he speaks unadulterated American...
...chalked up $41,322,074 through his annual fund appeal for Catholic Charities. Born in Whitman, Mass., moonfaced, articulate Frank Spellman ran errands for his father's grocery, played sandlot baseball, boxed in a village barn, became an altar boy at the local church. After graduating from Fordham University ('11), he studied for the priesthood at Rome's North American College. He served in the Boston archdiocese before the Vatican summoned him in 1925. As first U.S.-born staff member of the State Secretariate, Spellman translated and delivered in English the first papal radio broadcast, stayed...
...presence of the massive greats of the game, many of whom were still piling gain on steady gain. He was visibly moved by the honor of being presented to such old Hall of Famers* as Elmer Layden, Don Hutson, Otto Graham and Alex Wojciechowicz, center magnilith of Fordham's Seven Blocks of Granite...
...Courtney, Olympic 800-meter champion, was named assistant track coach yesterday, following approval by the Faculty Committee on Athletics. A former Fordham ace, presently in his second year at the Harvard Business School, Courtney will work as a middle distance specialist...