Word: herrick
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Died. Gerardus Post Herrick, 83, research engineer, inventor of the convertiplane, an aircraft (successfully tested in 1937) able to take off and land like an autogyro, convert in the air to normal high-speed flight, ancestor of current U.S. military experimental convertiplanes; in Manhattan...
Died. George Herrick, 61, onetime big operator of New York City gambling houses who later fell on hard times, went to work selling hosiery; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...glance that he has wasted his ability on a collection of early twentieth century writers who are rapidly becoming obscure. Of his five novelists, only Jack London and Theodore Dreiser have achieved any sort of place in literature, while the following of David Graham Phillips, Frank Norris, and Robert Herrick is meagre at best...
...neurotic, sickly, Harvard man, Robert Herrick is typical in his inability to escape the myth. Although he consciously sought to replace Alger with an alternative that would prove an equally compelling vision, he could not succeed. His answer was the Professional Man; he wanted his hero to renounce all ease and luxury, to define success in terms of his job rather than his salary. But as Lynn observes, Herrick wrote a series of fiascos because his Professional Men could not avoid, even in their north woods hideouts, striving to become Alger heroes...
...Patient Richard Herrick, 23, who in a remarkable operation had a kidney transplanted from his identical twin brother to replace his own damaged by nephritis (TIME, Jan. 3), left Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for a vacation. Doctors reported that the transplanted kidney was "functioning adequately." Still ahead of him: a possible second operation for removal of his two poorly functioning original kidneys...