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...Newark, Ohio...
...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, Henry Fordham found himself teaching mathematics in the Robert...
...From Newark, Del., School Superintendent Wilmer E. Shue reported that Fordham "has never taught in our schools." At Lincoln University, President Horace Mann Bond checked into the matter of the testimonial from John Wagner, declared that there was no such person in the phone book and that no one by that name had ever been connected with the university. Professor Robert Hillyer of the University of Delaware, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, said that he had never heard of Henry Fordham...
...Teleregister Corp., Stamford, Conn, handles 4,500 transactions hourly, accommodates up to 250,000 savings accounts. The data-processing system uses magnetic "memory" drums to control accounts, display uncleared check conditions, signal overdrafts, give tellers instantaneous access to any account. For the first customer, Howard Savings Institution of Newark, the "magnetronic savings-account system" will centrally record deposits and withdrawals made at the main office and five branch banks, saving customers' time and eliminating bulky manual records...
...story, investigated discrimination in its own backyard. The New York Post devoted twelve articles to the subject; the New York Times ran four solid stories on Negroes in New York and other Northern cities; the Chicago Tribune presented a scholarly, ten-part series by Negro Reporter Roi Ottley; the Newark News ran a series which was the joint work of two staffers who play tennis together-Tennessee-born George Kentera, 33, and Luther Jackson, 31, a Virginia-bred Negro. The Los Angeles Mirror-News told its story of a heavy Negro influx (1,700 a month) and the attendant problems...