Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Canterbury's 25th birthday dinner in Manhattan last week went rich and famous men: retired Steelman James A. Farrell and Railroader Henry Havemeyer, trustees of the school; 100-odd old boys, among them Philip Burnham, editor of the Catholic weekly Commonweal. Too busy to attend was old Canterburian Robert Sweeney of the American Eagle Squadron, training as air fighters in England. In jail in Italy was George Ehret, '29, accused of fooling around with Italian currency (TIME, Nov. 25). Classmates were not surprised, recalled that George once catapulted a butterball to the dining-room ceiling under...
Said the Doc last week: "Canterbury began on an $8,000 shoe string. Today it is a million-dollar educational plant devoted to the cause of Catholic Action . . . only school of its kind, really. . . . Sometimes I can hardly believe Canterbury is what it is today...
...busy church executive started work last week on a job that will probably lead to the biggest merger in the history of U. S. Protestantism. The man: Dean Luther Allan Weigle of the Yale Divinity School. The job: presidency of the Federal Council of Churches. The merger: a fusion of the Federal Council with six other major interchurch agencies...
Unable to hit on a permanent occupation, Boltz made a quick comeback by marrying Hazel Huckel, daughter of a prosperous Germantown architect who soon died, leaving his daughter $100,000. With his wife's money, Boltz went back to school-this time to study law at the University of Pennsylvania. He lived in a big house in the old part of town on the Main Line, had a law practice of sinecures tossed his way by friendly bankers and fellow Academy and Penn men. He founded the Juristic Society, an exclusive little legal and social group. Religious, he became...
...during the 1918 revolution, had quite a succès d'estime. The Scheu-Rieszes have long mixed politics and publishing. Her husband, who died before the Anschluss, published some 200 children's books from different languages in an effort to broaden the viewpoint of Viennese primary school children, who were using "dreadfully nationalistic" primers. In off hours Frau Scheu-Riesz organized a kind of socialist salon where she mixed left social democrats, right social democrats, reformers, Communists and Nazis. Most of her guests have since "gone to camp," as she puts it-concentration camp, of course...