Word: hirsh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dave Hirsh, late-thirtyish mock hero of Running, is that stock figure of much modern fiction, the self-pitying sore head who believes that the world owes him a loving. Dave is a World War II veteran and the author of two minor novels. He has been AWOL from his typewriter for seven years, and Choctaw rather than English would appear to be his first language. Sample: "A person could actually kill themselves that way." On an alcoholic whim, Dave returns in 1947 to Parkman. Ill., the hick home town he had deserted 19 years earlier in flight from...
...Mermaid Tavern setting where the young toughs drink, brawl and frolic with the "pigs" who work at the brassiere factory. The arbiter of this elegant bunch is 'Bama Dillert, a gambler without a river boat. 'Bama is a cool autocrat of the poker table, and Dave Hirsh shortly becomes his equally cool partner. 'Bama believes that luck is a function of the brain and that man will eventually master it ("maybe thats the next stage of life or evolution us human beins will evolve up to or something like that...
...government contract. To develop the northern claims, they set up Algom, of which Hirshhorn owns a million shares (36%), Preston East Dome 1,250,000 (45%), Hirshhorn's friends another 100,000. and the public only 400,000 shares. Last week, with Algom stock selling at around $16, Hirsh horn's direct and indirect holdings were worth about $20 million on paper...
Died. Allan M. Hirsh, 73, Virginia-born sewer-pipe manufacturer with an old claim to fame: as a college sophomore (Yale '01), he wrote Boola-Boola, the football song; in Manhattan...
...LEOPOLD HIRSH TELLER Philadelphia...