Word: pa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro seemed in perfect order. True enough, Henry Fordham seemed nervous when interviewed. He was, reported the board of interviewers, "not too coherent," and he used "big words, often incorrectly." But he did have a document to prove that he had a degree from Westminster College in Cochranville, Pa. He had-or so his papers indicated-taught in Newark, Del., and he had testimonials from a John Wagner at Pennsylvania's Lincoln University and from Professor Robert Hillyer of the University of Delaware. The board put him down as "slightly above average," and when the 1955-56 term began...
...Admittance. In the course of its routine investigation, the finance company wrote Westminster College in Cochran ville, Pa. to learn more about Fordham. Since there is no college of any sort at Cochranville, the letter ended up at the nearest Westminster, in New Wilmington, Pa. Yes, the college said, Henry Fordham had once applied for admission, "but we didn't admit him because of the poor quality of the work represented by his credits." Fordham's documents, complete with a most convincing seal, had nothing to do with that Westminster College...
...case against Fordham might have ended there. But though found out, Fordham insisted that he had a legal right to his full year's pay. His Westminster documents, he added, were not really forgeries, for he himself had created the college with seat at Cochranville, Pa., and, had given himself and his wife degrees. To back up his argument, Fordham turned to the dictionary, where a college is defined as "a collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits." He, his wife and three children, said Fordham, were obviously just that...
...locate defects inside the heart, Physician David H. Lewis of Philadelphia and Engineer James R. Brown Jr. of the U.S. Naval Air Development Center at Johnsville, Pa. have devised a microphone (more precisely, a transducer) no bigger than a pinhead (.06 in. diameter). Slipped into the heart at the end of a catheter, it applies the principles of submarine detection to the detection of disease...
Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps University Park, Pa...