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...Herman Nickel...
...November 20, 1820, the Nantucket whaling ship Essex was attacked by a sperm whale, and sank in mid-Pacific. The incident provided Herman Melville the ending for Moby Dick. It also sent the 20-man crew of the Essex zigzagging across open ocean for three months in three 23-ft. whaleboats. Eventually they resorted to cannibalism to survive. For more than 100 years the only known account was that of the first mate, Owen Chase. But this spring 100 pages written by Thomas Nickerson, who shipped on the Essex as a boy of 16, were found in an attic...
Other survivors wore T shirts with imprints of names, towns and camps. Among them was Jolan Deitch, 59, a Los Angeles housewife who lost her first husband, Herman Hornstein, in Auschwitz. Their daughter Erica, an office manager for a Los Angeles computer firm, wore a red-and-white shirt bearing the names of her mother's closest relatives. When Mrs. Deitch waited in line to consult the computer, another survivor complained that she would take up too much time with so many names to look up. Replied Mrs. Deitch, in tears: "It is better for you that your list...
...certainly true of the sensational "Scarsdale letter" of Jean Harris to Dr. Herman Tarnower. That letter, with its confluent currents of rhetorical cunning, heartbreak and hysteria, is a remarkable work of art. One cannot imagine Mrs. Harris dashing off a note that read: "Dear Hi. Miss you. Jean." Yet one can too easily see Tarnower writing back: "Dear Jean. Good to hear from you. Hi"-the absence of things in certain letters being more devastating than their presence in others. Nothing says more than a light, frisky note to a friend in despair...
...powerful voice lowers to a reverent tone as he tells the story. "My dad had had his right lung removed because of cancer and six unsuccessful operations on his left lung. I was talking with [eardiologist] Dr. Powell at a D.U. club function, and he referred me to Dr. Herman Grillo, the leading bronchial tracheologist...