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...Baptist Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jewish Governor Lehman and twelve other bigwigs, small, genial President Gannon had a wonderful time. He showed his guests an up-to-date university: Fordham has a big-time football team, a world-famed seismograph (earthquake-recording) station, a Nobel Prize winner (Physicist Victor F. Hess), a downtown branch in the Woolworth Building, schools of law, business, social service, pharmacy. Of Fordham's 8,200 students, only 1,400 are in its liberal arts college...
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, no men to let a beetle-browed Nazi named Hess run off with the title of Mystery Man of World War II, last week presented the world with the deepest, juiciest, most momentous mystery since the war began...
...Italians, Heinrich Kurt W. Nostiz, an administrative clerk, walked into a room on the third floor of the German Embassy in Washington, said goodby, shot himself. The Embassy gave out that he had died of heat prostration, later admitted a suicide, tried to pass it off in the Hess vein by a yarn of mental illness...
...tell you that this week's issue of TIME with its inside story about the flight of Hess to England, the Germans' demands on Russia and Marshal Timoshenko on the front cover with the big iron man Stalin is journalism of the very highest order...
...head of TIME'S newsbureau put two fast stenographers on the wire at this end and our correspondent dictated to them for half an hour the inside story about Hess' flight to England, about the discontent in Germany, about the wholesale arrests of once-active Nazis, about the growing isolation of Hitler and his unwillingness to listen to any disagreement, about the demands Germany made on Russia and when those demands were made...