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Died. Alford Joseph Williams Jr., 66, professional-aviator, prophet and pioneer of U.S. military aviation, first man to fly over 300 m.p.h. (1925, unofficial record); of cancer; in Elizabeth City, N.C. A onetime baseball pitcher (Fordham and New York Giants), Al Williams joined the Navy in World War I, started a 13-year flying hitch that produced such acrobatic innovations as the inverted falling leaf, made him one of the many fathers of dive-bombing, ended when he resigned from the regular Navy in 1930 in protest against sea duty. A Georgetown-trained lawyer, he was no less articulate than...
Social Revolution. Son of a Marine major who won two Medals of Honor, the Daily Times's new managing editor was born in Virginia, educated at Fordham, and joined the New York Times in 1936. During World War II, he made nine Pacific landings (e.g., Tarawa, Saipan, Okinawa) as a Marine combat correspondent...
Hell is a problem for theologians as well as sinners; to reconcile the worm and the fire with the Christian concept of a loving and forgiving God has been a perennial difficulty. In the Roman Catholic quarterly, Thought, Fordham University's Assistant Professor Robert W. Gleason, S.J., investigates Satan's kingdom in the light of modern thought. Says Theologian Gleason: "A combination of sentimentality, secular humanism and determinism have produced their own bitter fruit ... It is no longer generally believed, to put the matter bluntly, that man is capable of choices that could bring him to eternal death...
JOSEPH M. MCLAUGHLIN Editor in Chief Fordham Law Review Fordham University New York City...
...District Judge Irving R. Kaufman, who presided over the atom-spy trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, speaking at Fordham University Law School: "The space age promises to require far greater concessions of national sovereignty to international control and regulation. Earth satellites are circling the globe now in about the same time that it takes to get from Brooklyn to The Bronx by subway.* Since Sputnik, the question 'How high is up?' has taken on vast new significance. While historically sovereign jurisdiction extends to the air above the land, it would be totally unfeasible for such jurisdiction...