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TIME Sept. 5 refers to David Lasser as "long-nosed" (p. 9), to Al Smith as "red of nose" (p. 11), and to Philadelphia's Coroner Charles Hersch as "scythe-nosed" (p. 12). Why should a newsmagazine such as TIME concern itself with descriptions of men's "schnozzles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Despite officious interference from Philadelphia's jowly Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson, whose homicide squad reported "nothing suspicious" in the deaths, scythe-nose Coroner Charles H. Hersch took charge. His investigators compared "The Klondike" with the Black Hole of Calcutta.-* The scene they reconstructed was as horrid as anything ever written in the dingy annals of U. S. prisons: Stifled, maddened by the heat, the prisoners evidently fought savagely to get water from the "hoppers," air through the tiny ventilating holes. They had stuffed clothing into the "hoppers" to flood the floors, lain down in the water, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Parboiled Prisoners | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...chairmen who had not been chosen before. Members of the Committee, Julius Henry Appleton of Springfield, Nathan Spencer Barnes of Passadena, Cal., George Neal Burns of Rochester, N. Y., George Joseph Cleary of Naugatuck, Conn., Philip Ives Dunne, of New York City, Robert, Bigelow Gowing of Boston, Alfred Herman Hersch of White Plains, N. Y., Paul Albert Newsome of Lorain, O., Philip Hamilton Rhinelander of Gloucester, Ernest Stent of San Francisco, Cal., and Donald Weisman of New York City...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RED BOOK COMMITTEES NOW ALMOST COMPLETE | 4/17/1926 | See Source »

...Sears Prizes in the Law School have been awarded for the year 1912-1913 to Maurice Hersch 3L. (University of Virginia), of Houston, Texas; Zechariah Chaffee, Jr., 3L. (Brown), of Providence, R. I., and Van Santvoord Merle-Smith 2L. (Princeton), of New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sears Prizes Awarded in Law School | 10/30/1912 | See Source »

PRINCETON BOATING.The following have been elected officers of the Princeton Boating Association: Captain, C. W. Bird; president, Grier Hersch; vice-president, F.S.Hicks; treasurer, W. F. Jackson; secretary, M. S. Bevan. The question of the advisability of supporting a crew has been a mooted one in the college ever since the defeats sustained last spring. Strong articles in opposition to boating have appeared in the college press, and a stubborn resistance was anticipated in the meeting by the boating men. The elections were made, however, without opposition, and a motion was carried to sustain a crew. The applications for positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/28/1884 | See Source »

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