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...Line at 8. Hardheaded Frank McMahon has worked for 20 years to see it come in. Son of a British Columbia wildcatter, McMahon attended Spokane's Gonzaga University (where he was a campus mate of Bing Crosby), began wildcatting in the 19303. In 1939 he formed Pacific Petroleums Ltd., which in less than 19 years has piled up total assets of $34.5 million, holds interests in 7,500,000 acres of potential oil-and-gas lands...
Spokane's Gonzaga University opened its new library, a glittering campus showplace for which sentimental old Non-Grad Bing Crosby (class of '26) donated $615,000. The library, which has 153,000 books, is also outfitted with a special Crosbyana Room. It has wall-to-wall carpeting and glass showcases for Bing's Oscar (for Going My Way in 1944), photographs, citations, old scrapbooks and the 20 gold platters for recordings that sold more than a million copies...
...last week at the Jesuit philosophical institute known as the Aloysianum (for St. Aloysius Gonzaga) in Gallarate, near Milan, man put his electronic brains to work for the glory of God. The experiment began ten years ago, when a young Jesuit named Roberto Busa at Rome's Gregorian University chose an extraordinary project for his doctor's thesis in theology: sorting out the different shades of meaning of every word used by St. Thomas Aquinas. But when he found that Aquinas had written 13 million words, Busa sadly settled for an analysis of only one word-the various...
...Looking for Mr. Green, a welfare investigator ranges endlessly through a Chicago slum trying to give a relief check to a crippled Negro. In The Gonzaga Manuscripts, a dilettante fruitlessly combs Spain trying to buy the lost manuscripts of a dead poet. The stories suffer particularly from the fact that the leading characters are usually the dullest people in them. The reader of Seize the Day could do with less of regressive Tommy Wilhelm and more about rascally Dr. Tamkin, whose compelling eye and incessant tongue carry the story bracingly forward whenever he is onstage...
Miller spoke at the Harvard Club of Seattle after receiving an honorary degree on April 5 from Gonzaga University in Spokane. He said that in Seattle there has been "immense public discussion" over Schmitz' veto of a request from the department of Physics to invite Oppenheimer for lectures this summer...