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...continent’s Jews, student pressure here at Harvard eventually caused the University to sponsor the full undergraduate educations of 14 refugees by 1944. Rahel Kestenberg, who fled from Prague, was the first Jewish refugee to enroll in Radcliffe, The Crimson reported in February 1939. Kurt M. Hertzfeld ’41 was also sponsored by Harvard. Then an 18-year-old refugee, Hertzfeld traveled from Austria in 1937 to avoid military conscription. Alone with no money, Hertzfeld said he saw a New York Times article about special Harvard scholarships for refugees, applied, and was awarded a full scholarship...

Author: By Shifra B. Mincer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fleeing Nazis, Some Found Refuge Here | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...ground the fledgling industry. The FAA is now charged with issuing launch licenses and could impose tough restrictions on private trips, in part to minimize its own potential liability. "Even if people accept the risks, our government will be regulating private space travel one way or another," says Henry Hertzfeld, a space-policy expert at George Washington University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: So You Want To Be An Astronaut? | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...sometime before summer (having missed | a self-imposed deadline last month). And this week a company called General Magic, which has been surrounded with breathless secrecy since it was founded three years ago by ex-Apple employees -- including two of the brightest lights on the Macintosh design team, Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson -- will finally reveal what it has up its sleeve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Portable Office That Fits In Your Palm | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

...engineers and programmers were stirred by Jobs' aggressive style. Says Mac Programmer Andy Hertzfeld: "Steve said, I'll get this team that will make a cheap computer and blow the Lisa team off the face of the earth.'" Jobs recruited some veterans of Apple's early days and bet John Couch, then head of the Lisa division, $5,000 that Mac would beat Lisa to the shop window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Apple Launches a Mac Attack | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

Undergraduates include Kurt Hertzfeld '42, an Austrian Economics concentrator; Jiri Springer '42 and Walter Robitschek 42, lifelong friends who went to Columbia together before coming to Harvard, Johannes Imhof '42, another Austrian and an Economics student; Thomas Wiener '42, a Czech and a Government concentrator; and Milos Safranek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Refugee Committee May have To Supply Additional $5,000 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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