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...toward the main home island of Honshu, raced up the funnel neck of Kii Strait, dealt sleeping villages across 60,000 square miles six shattering blows in three hours. Tokyo newspapers called it the worst disaster since the great earthquake of September 1923, which killed 143,000. Said famed Fordham Seismologist Father Joseph J. Lynch: "A ripsnorter...
...Fordham's law school, came to the Government service after eight years with the Wall Street firm of Cahill, Gordon, Zachry & Reindel...
...these who don't read the splash headlines, Budenz is the former leading Communist journalist converted to Catholicism and a Fordham professorship by Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen in October of 1945. Hearst's editorial pages with their belligerent captial letters have recently featured his "inside story," and he is presently touring U. S. religious gatherings to reveal "What Every American should Know About Communism." Last night St. Patrick's Youth Center sponsored his appearance at the Cambridge High and Latin School Auditorium...
Since 1941, when he first came to the U.S. to study, 35-year-old Father Matthews has been lecturing and teaching almost as much as he has been learning. His current schedule includes graduate courses in English at New York City's Fordham University (which this summer awarded him a Ph.D. in Sociology and Political Philosophy); completion of a book on Caribbean social forms; supervision of two research projects at Katherine Dunham's School of Dance and Theatre, where he also teaches philosophy; lectures to discussion groups, university students...
...Benedict admitted him, gave him basic training and two years of philosophy, sent him on to the Benedictine College of Theology at Belgium's University of Louvain. Ordained a priest in 1935, Father Matthews took extension courses from University Correspondence College, Cambridge, came to the U.S. and Fordham on a scholarship...