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...electronic devices. Some, no larger than a silver dollar, can be seeded by aircraft; once in place, they will detect the movement of the smallest enemy groups and transmit warnings to gun crews miles away. "We are getting better and better at this sort of thing," says Charles M. Herzfeld, until recently director of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency. "I think that it is really our secret weapon." Still, there are plenty of bugs in the system: rats, dogs, or even rainfall can trigger the gadgets-and it rains an average of 120 inches during...
...Sermons are usually built around the catechism," complained Physicist Charles Herzfeld, writing about "Our Wasted Intellectuals" in the July 6 issue of Commonweal. "This is simply not good enough. Parish activities, where the featured speaker is a football coach, are not good enough, nor are bazaars, nor novenas." Parish life, he says, often gives "a great and deep sense of being outcast, and of being abandoned by the Church...
...eight-count indictment against Schlesinger, Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan charged that Schlesinger had used his mother's name and the reputation of his employers, the investment banking firm of Glore, Forgan & Co., to swindle three prominent businessmen in an oil scheme. The victims: brothers Richard and John Herzfeld, who were part owners of Milwaukee's Boston Store until it sold out to the Federated Department Stores chain (TIME, Dec. 20, 1948), and Robert P. McCulloch. former Milwaukeean who is now president of McCulloch Motors, which grosses $40 million a year making power saws, superchargers and plane parts...
...Business. Schlesinger, whose job was to drum up new business for Glore, Forgan, first presented his scheme to Raymond Newman, a financial adviser for the Herzfeld brothers and McCulloch. during a visit to Milwaukee to see his father (his mother renounced all claims to the custody of her son when she divorced his father in 1920, and a trust of upwards of $300,000 was set up and later turned over to the lad). Schlesinger said that his mother had put $500,000 in a "hush-hush" Louisiana oilfield. As recounted in the indictment, he said that "Mrs. Harrison Williams...
...Herzfeld's father, Karl, who built up the 48-year-old Boston Store, often over the strenuous protests of conservative old Julius Simon, the founder, who thought the store should sell only low-priced goods. Karl gave Milwaukee's thrifty burghers the widest possible assortment to choose from. Once, when Karl bought a stock of fine woolens to sell at the then unheard-of price of $15 a yard, Simon swept the goods off the counter, crying: "Do you want to ruin this store?" Later Herzfeld and his two partners, Richard Phillipson and Nat Stone, took over...