Word: herman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yard medley relay--Won by Andover (Sper, Houghteling, Herman...
...Harvard will carry on with its present sports program until definite orders to the contrary are received from Washington," Carroll F. Getchell, business manager of the Harvard Athletic Association; said last night, commenting upon a statement of Colonel Herman Beukema, director of the Army Specialized Training Program, that trainees could not participate in intercollegiate sports...
...Channel 15 miles outside Houston squats one of the most remarkable shipyards in the whole U.S.-yet most citizens have never heard of it. Its name: Brown Shipbuilding Co. Its achievement: low-cost mass production of small naval vessels in one-third Navy-schedule time. Its management: dapper, energetic Herman Brown, 50, and fast-thinking, early-rising George Brown, 44, a pair of six-foot brothers who were construction contractors only 18 months ago. Last week Brown Shipbuilding christened the destroyer escort S. S. Tomich, the eighth ship launched in eight days and a new record for the yard...
...Less directly involved in war, but caught in its vortex, were Novelist-Biographer Stefan Zweig, dead by his own hand in Brazilian exile ("The artist has been wounded in his concentration. . . ."); sensationalist Richard Julius Herman Krebs (alias Jan Valtin, hero of under-coverman Krebs's 1941 best-seller Out of the Night), imprisoned by the Justice Department for deportation to Germany at war's end; Author Waldo ("I love Argentina. . . .") Frank, who gave a repeat performance of the mauling he received in Kentucky's Harlan County in 1932 by getting attacked by young Fascists in Buenos Aires...
Among the speakers at the dedication were U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran, venereal disease enemy No. 1, and Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen, who will head the hospital until a permanent director is chosen. Rear Admiral John Downes, commandant of the Ninth Naval District and Major General Henry S. Aurand, commanding officer of the Sixth Service Command, were on hand to congratulate the city on its "positive stand" on venereal disease-the center is expected to reduce the dangers of infection among service men in the Chicago district...