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...those in charge of screening the annual 9,000 applicants for teaching jobs in Cincinnati's public schools, the papers of the clean-cut, 38-year-old Negro seemed in perfect order. True enough, Henry Fordham seemed nervous when interviewed. He was, reported the board of interviewers, "not too coherent," and he used "big words, often incorrectly." But he did have a document to prove that he had a degree from Westminster College in Cochranville, Pa. He had-or so his papers indicated-taught in Newark, Del., and he had testimonials from a John Wagner at Pennsylvania...
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...Jesuits who will be ordained in the Roman Catholic priesthood at New York's Fordham University next week is Avery R. Dulles, 37, youngest son of Presbyterian John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State. In the current issue of the Jesuit weekly America, Convert Dulles turns a well-honed mind to the 22-year-old National Legion of Decency, the Catholic agency for screening and grading movies for their moral content...
...Screen Gems, the TV subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, hopes to raise a contented crop of future television playwrights. The fertilization: scholarship grants for budding authors have already been assigned to Fordham University and the universities of North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Iowa...
...John F. Long, S.J., first Jesuit to be trained in the Roman Catholic Russian Rite in the U.S., will be ordained this week at Fordham University. The Russian Rite is a section of the Oriental Rite, one of the two great branches of Roman Catholic liturgy (the other is called the Latin Rite), which follows closely the liturgical pattern of the Eastern Orthodox Church...