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Pete Quesada got into aviation in 1924, when he left Georgetown University to join the Army Air Service, moved slowly up through the ranks until World War II, when he became a major general. He distinguished himself as a combat commander in Europe and Africa, personally flew General Eisenhower over the D-day beachhead. Later he commanded the joint task force in the first H-bomb tests at Eniwetok. Atoll in 1951. After a brief hitch as head of Lockheed Aircraft's missile division, he returned to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: General of the Airways | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...Bodenheimer '59, of Eliot House and Salt Lake City, Utah, Peter P. Brooks '59, of Eliot House and New Canaan, Ct., David O. Carpenter '59 of Winthrop House and Granada, Minn., Michael J. Chamberlin '59, of Kirkland House and Honolulu, Hawaii, Glenn W. Clark '56, of Winthrop House and Georgetown, Idaho, and John P. Demos '59, of Lowell House and Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Elects 79 Seniors To Membership in Honorary Group | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...People in Love." How the son of General Sherman, a nondenominational Protestant who believed in "truth," came to be a Jesuit spellbinder is told in this fascinating biography by Joseph T. Durkin, himself a Jesuit and professor of American history at Georgetown University. Tom Sherman, born in 1856, was brought up in St. Louis and Washington amid his father's legend, but his Catholic mother, Ellen Ewing Sherman, probably had the greater influence. Tom went to Yale, studied law at St. Louis' Washington University, then abruptly informed his father that he was about to enter the Jesuit novitiate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father Tom | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

What College Bowl suffers from is a sophomoric strain on the basketball analogy. A referee's shrill whistle signals half time and the commercial. A student audience is encouraged to cheer each correct answer. After Northwestern was defeated by Georgetown a few weeks back, Northwestern students hanged in effigy the quiz team's coach, Dean of Students James Currie McLeod. Mused McLeod: "Who knows-I may wind up like Terry Brennan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Basketball Scholarship | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...spring trip to the South last week, and showed that it has a good chance for the Ivy League Pennant. The Varsityswept a two game series with Quantico, then split a double-header with the University of Richmond, winning the second game decisively, 5-0. Two games, with Georgetown and Maryland, were rained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Baseball Squad Victorious On Annual Spring Tour in Virginia | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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