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...then there was Al Hirshberg in the Boston Traveler: "Go to your little man in the mansion in Chicago, Cassius Clay (Elijah Muhammed). ...But don't walk the streets of my America a free...
Andrew W. Hirshberg '48 sang a series of Western ballads, accompanying himself with the guitar. Between songs he inserted plugs for his sponsors, candidates Paul S. Dollin and Leonard E. Reisman. His performance was only slightly interrupted by the cavorting of a large brown monkey bearing the sign of Murray Budabin on his back...
After three weeks the court-martial had found Chief Hirshberg not guilty of informing against the three prisoners who planned to escape, not guilty of hitting four of his accusers, but guilty of beating two of them. Last week, it gave him just about the stiffest sentence it could: ten months in the Navy's Retraining Command (correction school) at Norfolk, Va., to be followed by dishonorable discharge...
...weeks ago, a Navy general court-martial at Brooklyn's Naval Shipyard began the trial of stocky Chief Signalman Harold E. Hirshberg, 29, a regular Navy man and a section leader in several Japanese prison camps after his capture at Corregidor. Chief Hirshberg was charged with hitting six men in his charge, and of informing against three who planned to escape. One of the three had been tortured to death by the Japanese...
Witnesses testified that Hirshberg had threatened, slugged and cursed fellow prisoners, that he had once declared: "I will live through this if it costs the life of every man under me." The defense declared that Hirshberg had shielded his men, got them extra food, clothing and sick-time...