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Divorced. By Myrna Loy, 39, "the perfect screen wife": John D. Hertz Jr., 36, Manhattan advertising executive and taxicab heir; after two years; in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Grounds: incompatibility...
...answer. The Liebers go on to discuss more complicated questions, such as the relation of mathematical philosophers to practical inventors. For example, practical Marconi had to get the idea that a wireless message might be sent before he could figure how to do it. He got the idea from Hertz's demonstration of the existence of electromagnetic waves. And Hertz got the idea of looking for such waves from Clerk Maxwell, who got his idea from working with the calculus. And the calculus was invented long before by Newton, who was an abstract, not a practical thinker...
Keeshin's tough-as-nails President John Louis Keeshin started out (in 1913) with one horse and wagon, wound up (in 1936) as the No. 1 U.S. trucker. By that time Jack Keeshin had the potent help of John Hertz, Lehman Bros, partner and Yellow Cab Co. founder, and of Hertz's tough right-hand man Daniel G. Arnstein (who later turned the Burma Road into an efficient supply line). John Hertz and "My Boy Danny" are no longer on Keeshin's board, but air-minded Lehman Corp. ''who also have a finger in both...
Cabman John D. Hertz once refused a cool million for a horse named Reigh Count. This year the Hertzes have their reward: a colt that is faster, smarter and shows promise of being greater than their 1928 Derby winner. He is Count Fleet, Reigh Count's three-year...
...Count Fleet goes on to win the Kentucky Derby next week he will make John Hertz one of the world's luckiest turfmen. A little over a year ago, Hertz was willing to sell the son of Reigh Count for $4,500. The colt's conformation was faulty: his weight and power had grown in front instead of behind, where experts insist it should be. His forelegs were slightly knock-kneed and he ran with his head held high like a show horse. He seemed destined to be no greater than his mother, a commonplace selling plater named...