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Although the Jesuits, all men, teach thousands of women, no woman had ever before been named to such a high administrative post in a Jesuit college. But to Fordham's president, the Rev. Robert I. Gannon, Miss King's promotion was "logical," since Fordham has more than 3,000 women students, and in the social service school they outnumber men two to one. Founded in 1916, the School of Social Service is now a fulltime, professional graduate school to which only holders of bachelors' degrees are admitted for the two-year course. Its campus is the eighth...
Thus the Yorkshire Post recently summed up one of the most curious phenomena of modern British journalism. A revival of the classic art of pamphleteering, London's newsletters are mimeographed or cheaply printed, distributed by mail to subscribers at home and abroad. Beginning about six years ago, newsletters have grown in circulation and influence until as of last week they were reaching hundreds of thousands of selected readers and had created an international incident...
...following advertisement appeared last week in the New York Post...
NEWSPAPER MAN of thirty-one years' experience is desirous of job. Has worked as reporter, copyreader, rewrite, book reviews, dramatic critic, war correspondent, sports writer, columnist and briefly as publisher. Of neat appearance, although labor agitator. Not sure of recommendation from present post. No reasonable offer will be refused. Address Mr. X., P. 0. Box 521, Stamford, Conn...
Last week Civil Aeronautics Authority's crash board issued a post-mortem (in advance of official reports): a rag in the air intake had choked off the Q.E.D.'s breath. Crash Board Member Carl B. Allen hastened to add that sabotage was out of the question because no saboteur could so plant a rag as to gum the works at a crucial moment. How it got there remained any man's guess. Some guesses: 1) the propeller whisked it off the ground into the intake; 2) a careless grease-monkey left it near the intake; 3) sabotage...