Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trade journal The Bookseller, British Novelist Nicholas Monsarrat, who saw World War II from a Royal Navy bridge and told his story in The Cruel Sea (about 800,000 copies sold), trained his guns on Herman Wouk, U.S.N.R. and The Caine Mutiny (about 2,000,000 copies). Wouk's novel of life on a minesweeper, said Monsarrat, "is most readable, often engrossing, and as true an account . . . as a ten-year-old child's drawing of an aircraft carrier...
...immigrant's son, the late Herman Ridder got his start in newspaper publishing in 1900 with the German-language Staats-Zeitung. But as the vanishing immigrant became the unhyphenated American, the foreign-language press dwindled. Publisher Ridder's interests grew into a twelve-paper, English-language group of dailies built on the cornerstone of the daily Staats-Zeitung, just as the late Joseph Pulitzer started out on St. Louis' German-language Westliche Post. Last week, with the number of German readers still dwindling, Victor F. Ridder, 67, son of Herman Ridder, announced that he was selling...
Died. Dr. Herman Benjamin Baruch, 80, physician, financier, former U.S. Ambassador to Portugal (1945-47) and The Netherlands (1947-49), brother of Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch; in Wyandanch...
...named Aaron. But the second baby showed no sign of being ready to be born, as it should have if the two had been ordinary twins. So Dr. Diamond induced labor, and late that night Mrs. Kupferstein gave birth to a second boy (4 Ibs. 13 oz.) named Herman. Said Dr. Diamond: the boys, though born to the same mother on the same day, were not really twins because they had matured in separate wombs. Other doctors called the babies twins anyway...
...Died. Herman J. Mankiewicz, 55, cinema writer-producer (Oscar winner, with Orson Welles, for Citizen Kane), elder brother of Writer-Director Joseph L. (All About Eve) Mankiewicz; of uremic poisoning; in Hollywood...