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Charles G. Stradella, 56, was elected president of General Motors Acceptance Corp., G.M.'s subsidiary for financing wholesale and retail sales ($6.7 billion in 1953). An upstate New Yorker, Stradella graduated from Yale University, studied at Fordham's law school, went to work for G.M.A.C. in 1919, climbed to vice president for overseas branch operations, later transferred to General Motors Overseas Operations Division and became head of the division's New York general staff...
America's Town Meeting (Tues. 9 p.m., ABC). "The Army-McCarthy Hearings," with Socialist Norman Thomas, Fordham Professor Godfrey Schmidt...
...Angeles, Shotputter Parry O'Brien, who cracked the 60-ft. barrier fortnight ago, broke his own record (by ½ in.) with another record heave of 60 ft. 5 3/4 in. He is now aiming at 62 ft. Another world record was set at the Coliseum relays when the Fordham University quartet of Terry Foley, Frank Tarsney, Bill Persichetty and Tom Courtney ran the two-mile relay in 7:27.3. Old (1952) record...
...three speakers made similar proposals as alternatives to present investigating practices. Both Griswold and Jefferson B. Fordham, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, suggested that Congress appoint an independent commission such as that now investigating the Oppenheimer case. This commission would take over the duties presently carried out by the Velde, Jenner, and McCarthy Committee...
Martin, president-elect, American Medical Association; James Wechsler, editor, New York Post; Professor Louis Budenz, Fordham University; Michael Fry, Reuters correspondent to the U.N. for seven years; and George Hecht, president, Parents Institute...