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...CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION, the funda mental problem of detection, began to be a science in 1879, when Alphonse Bertillon introduced a system of anthropometry involving some eleven bodily measurements of each criminal. Fingerprinting, long a form of signature in the Orient, was introduced to Europe by Britain's William Herschel, and it had to compete with anthropometry until 1904, when two prisoners at Fort Leavenworth were found to have identi cal features, practically identical anthropometric measurements and identical names: Will West. Only their fingerprints were different, and within seven years only fingerprints were accepted in civilized communities as the ineradicable...
Between the Farm Bureau on the right and the Farmers Union on the left stands the granddaddy of all U.S. farm organizations, the 98-year-old National Grange, with 800,000 members. Master of the Grange is Indiana-born Herschel D. Newsom, 65, a roly-poly Quaker and lifelong Republican, who believes that "government has a proper role in agriculture...
...annually to a student who has taken a curse in English and who submits "the most understanding essay on the true spirit of book collecting." Another prize requiring more talent than work is the Austin B. Mason Prize for outstanding work in the field of soil mechanics. The Clemans Herschel Prize in restricted to students enrolled in courses in practical hydraulics, but such courses are easier passed than found at Harvard...
...Manhattan clan, headed by a Guys and Dolls-type gypsy, Herschel Bernardi, needs to raise an $8,000 bridal fee to purchase a spitfiery West Side Story-type gypsy girl (Chita Rivera) for his son. The girl is so keen for the match that she stages a bajour (Romany for swindle) and cons the widow for the money. A subplot has the widow's daughter living in with the Bernard! bunch to research a Ph.D...
...Herschel C. Baker will replace B.J. Whiting '25 as chairman of the English Department, Both are professors of English...