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...Review; Barent Ten Eyck, 34 only gentile of the lot, a suave, bald Princetonian socialite, translator of two Scandinavian novels. Fifteen men and one woman rounded out the Dewey legal staff. The woman, Mrs. Eunice Hunton Carter, a young Negro lawyer and social worker schooled by Smith and Fordham and married to a Harlem dentist, was to prove one of his ablest trackers of prostitution and policy racketeers. Ten crack accountants were picked to search racketeers' bank records and the books of their reluctant victims. Prosecutor Dewey's second prime requisite was the wholehearted backing of top local...
Sportswriters all over the U. S. ridiculed Washington's choice on two counts. Pitt this year has been beaten by Duquesne, tied by Fordham. Louisiana State and Alabama, each with one tie and no defeats, both have better records. Asked to play in New Orleans' Sugar Bowl game on New Year's Day, Louisiana State promptly accepted, will play against undefeated" and untied Santa Clara-which still has to play Texas Christian this week-as its opponent for the "championship of the U. S." Heisman Memorial Trophy, awarded annually to the country's "outstanding football player...
Outclassed 60-to-0 by Ohio State in its first game this season, twice beaten since, New York University, with strong ground plays to solidify gains made by the punting of Junior End Howard Dunney, splintered Fordham's lingering dreams of an undefeated season and a trip to California...
...born to Svenn Thórarinsson, he named the babe Jon Svensson. But Jon's mother nicknamed her child "Nonni," and when the boy grew up he popularized that name in Europe in many a book about himself. Spry at 79, "Nonni" Svensson, S.J. turned up at Fordham University last week, willingly rehearsed his story for the Press. "Nonni" did not live long on the Icelandic farm of his birth. At 12 he was one of two healthy boys chosen to be educated in France at the expense of a rich nobleman. Crossing to Denmark in a sailing vessel...
...Fordham University, Father Svensson's arrival last week was eventful. The erect, twinkling-eyed Icelander turned out to be wearing the fedora hat of the late great priest-chancellor of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, with whom Father Svensson lived in Vienna and at whose death the Jesuit was present. Fordham's Jesuits made a quick deal with their colleague, bought him a new hat and acquired Monsignor Seipel's for the University museum...