Education: McMahon to Chicago

If Notre Dame did not want him, Chicago did. The pain of being ousted from a Catholic institution was alleviated last week for lame, earnest Catholic Philosopher Francis Elmer McMahon (TIME, Nov. 22): the fighting Irishman who had attacked Dictator Francisco Franco and praised Russia’s war record landed a new job on the faculty of Robert Maynard Hutchins’ University of Chicago. This would hardly relieve the pain of Notre Dame’s president, Father Hugh O’Donnell. He got protests against his dismissal of McMahon from 29 Notre Dame facultymen, the Florida Catholic and other diocesan papers, U.S. philosophers.