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...honorary M.D.s and Ph.D.s had been virtually disgraced (but Bing Crosby got an honorary Ph.D. from his Alma Mater, Washington's Gonzaga University, in 1937). Today the usual honorary degrees are LL.D. (Doctor of Laws), Litt.D. (Letters), Sc.D. (Science), D.D. (Divinity). But Investigator Epler found that most people could not distinguish these from earned doctorates. Most frequent earned degrees corresponding to the honorary ones: Ph.D. (given in various fields), J.D. or J.S.D. (Doctor of Law or the Science of Jurisprudence), Sc.D. (Doctor of Science), Th.D. (Doctor of Theology...
...Spokane, Wash, accountant, Bing's earliest leanings were towards having fun. Pleasant and easygoing, he liked to swim at Mission Park on hot days or whack around the Downriver golf course with his rusty, secondhand clubs. His vague goal was the law, which he leisurely studied at nearby Gonzaga University...
...soft and womanly Wellesley girl, available for Saturday dates until one o'clock and on other nights until ten or eleven, is the Harvard Freshman's traditional favorite. He will do well to ignore Wellesley's stated preference for Dartmouth, Princeton, and Gonzaga Teachers' College; distant pastures always look greener...
Honored. Harry Lillis ("Bing") Crosby, singer; with a Ph.D.; for "eminence" in the field of entertainment; by Gonzaga University, Spokane, Wash. In addition to the degree he was given the key to the city and made mayor...
...paper (1? to 5?) seldom covers the expenses of the publication. Advertisements are often of the sort not acceptable to the lay press. Manhattan's Catholic News, which bears the recommendation of Cardinal Hayes as "a friendly, newsy paper," carries the advertising of foot masseurs, $2 doctors, "a Gonzaga University Priest Chemist's" preparation for the hair. Our Sunday Visitor of Huntington. Ind., which is running a big religious picture contest similar to Old Gold's for a $2,000 grand prize, advertises such products as Mercolized Wax which "Brings Out Your Hidden Beauty...