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...desperately to bring his weapon to bear. O'Dwyer warned him, then pulled his own pistol, fired once, into the man's arm. The bullet plowed on and killed him. _ The D.A. His hard but priceless education on the waterfront was augmented by another: he went to Fordham University Law School. When he was admitted to the bar he left the police force and opened a law office in Brooklyn. He discovered i) that he could make $35,000 a year, and 2) that he didn't like being a lawyer. He began to dabble in Democratic...
...nominee is a friendly, easygoing lawyer named Joseph J. O'Connell Jr., 43, an old Government hand. He started work with the Government in 1933 as a public works attorney after he had worked his way through night classes at Fordham law school by selling plumbing equipment. He moved to the Treasury in 1938, became its general counsel in 1944, but quit last year "to provide for the financial security" of his wife and two daughters. He changed his mind about Government work, which he enjoys, because "I was flattered by the President's request and couldn...
Other leaders in the final scoring were Manhattan, 18; Penn State, 13 1/4 Army, 12 1/4; Rhode Island State, 11 1/4; and Fordham...
Last week, the Very Rev. Robert I. Gannon, president of Fordham University, said it in words that everybody could understand. Said Father Gannon, "The fraud in the present campaign for educational inflation consists in spreading our national culture perilously thin and calling it 'democracy of education.' It consists in swelling the number of incompetents in American colleges and calling it 'equality of opportunity...
Harry's gridiron career began back in the Fordham-Pittsburgh football dynasty of the late '30's, when he held down the left end slot of that famous forward wall, the Rams' "Seven Blocks of Granite"." In 1938, his senior year, Jacunski co-captained the Rams with Mike Kochel and proved himself a 60-minute man as Fordham lost only to the Panthers...