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Author Joseph Hirsh points out that in the past 100 years the amount of alcohol (not alcoholic beverages) consumed has gone up only .02%; more beer and less whiskey is being drunk today. But the point is that there are a lot more people around who have reached the drinking age. The modern world, Hirsh says, encourages drinking. It is a "world of acute tensions and violence, and it is from this kind of world that sick people come...
...Much Alcohol. No pious bluenose, Hirsh is a hardbitten, 34-year-old health administrator who has spent nearly twelve years studying drinkers. He has worked for the U.S. Public Health Service, the World Health Organization, the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol and as chief of preventive medicine for the Twelfth Air Force in Italy. He does not denounce alcohol as the root of all evils. Says he: "Traffic accidents, crime, promiscuity and divorce go deeper and far beyond alcohol...
...Ormond French (whose daughter, Ellen, married John Jacob Astor in 1934) became a cab driver, in 1938 applied for a WPA job. Left. By the late Simon Guggenheim, copper tycoon: to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the bulk of his estate, not yet estimated; to his widow, Olga Hirsh Guggenheim, a $100,000 annuity from a $2,000,000 trust fund; to numerous relatives, friends, institutions, about...
...office clerk, trembled with excitement to hear that next year they could throw up their jobs, settle down somewhere to do the work they like best. In Manhattan the $4,700,000 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed in 1925 by Mining Tycoon Simon Guggenheim and his wife Olga Hirsh Guggenheim, was ready to give its 1937 Fellows $115,000 with no strings attached. Two thousand dollars was the average stipend...
Summa Cum Laude degrees were awarded to the following 16 men: Meyer Howard Abrams, Long Branch, New Jersey; Edward Augustus Ackerman, Spokane, Washington; Daniel Joseph Boorstin, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Donald David Cody, Hartford, Connecticut; Robert Calhoun Creel, Cambridge; Oscar Hirsh Davis, Mount Vernon, New York; Edward Settle Godfrey, 3rd, Albany, New York; Richard Murphey Goodwin, Newcastle, Indiana; Gove Griffith Johnson, Jr., Washington, D. C.; Robert Kaplan, Cambridge; Paul Lachlan MacKendrick, Roslindale; John Arthur Martin, Bangor, Maine; John Barzillai Rackliffe, Newton; John Thomas Sapieuze, Irvington, New Jersey; John William Walsh, Jr., Quincy...