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Walter continued his studies at Fordham Law School, graduated in 1930, and got himself engaged to Kay Hanson; his childhood sweetheart. A shy, pretty girl, Kay developed a cancer of the larynx. In one of the first such operations ever performed successfully, her larynx was removed, and Kay was never able to talk again. Walter saw no reason to change any of their plans. But his father stormily forbade the marriage. "She's the same girl I fell in love with," insisted Walter. And so they were married, and have raised a close-knit family of two children-Terry...
They first met when they joined the Manhattan law firm of Phillips & Nizer (now Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin & Krim). Benjamin had worked his way through the College of the City of New York and Fordham Law School; Krim was a Columbia Phi Beta Kappa and editor in chief of the Columbia Law Review. They specialized in accounts in the entertainment field, became so well known that in 1951 United Artists came to Krim for help...
...John V. Naish, 50, executive vice president of General Dynamics' Convair Division, moved up to president, succeeding General Joseph T. McNarney. 64, who is retiring (TIME, Jan. 20). Naish, brother of Cinemactor J. Carrol Naish, graduated from Fordham in '29, learned the industry from the bottom (he started as a mechanic) before he joined Convair in 1947, became executive vice president in 1952. ¶Walter A. Haas Jr., 42, vice president of San Francisco's famed Levi Strauss & Co., stepped up to president, succeeding his uncle (by marriage), Daniel E. Koshland, 65. Haas represents the fourth generation...
...Philip Dunham Reed, 58, board chairman of General Electric Co. for 19 years, will step down at G.E.'s annual meeting April 23, retire when he reaches 60 next year. A handsome man and a fluent speaker, Reed is an engineer (Wisconsin '21) and a lawyer (Fordham '24), became G.E.'s youngest chairman of the board, served in Washington and London in World War II, has since concentrated on G.E.'s international affairs...
...freshman meet, another undefeated squad faces a talented Eli opponent. The Bullpups have lost only to the Fordham freshmen, and they boast three phenomenal runners in Tom Carroll, holder of the schoolboy 880 record, Ned Roache, and Bill Bachrach, who has beaten them both. Bachrach currently holds the Yale freshman cross country record...