Word: heckscher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was some basis for the crack. Yaleman Whitelaw Reid, the new editor (and son of the owner), had a bevy of competent classmates around him: Radio Columnist John Crosby; Dick Pinkham, new circulation manager; and August Heckscher, a new editorial writer. The new sports editor (also Yale '36) is curly-haired, gregarious Bob Cooke, who once did a sports column for the Yale Daily News, played right wing on the varsity hockey team, was an Army flyer (in B-26s) during the war. His first official act was to assign himself back to the Brooklyn Dodgers; Woodward...
...early experience included work as dentist with the Grenfell Mission to Labrador in the summers of 1930 and 1938, and the post of attending dentist with the Heckscher Foundation for Children. During the war he served as a lieutenant commander stationed in the Third Naval District...
Gustave Maurtee Heckscher...
Died. August Heckscher, 92, shrewd, crusty, tufty-bearded, Hamburg-born industrialist and financier who made fortunes in coal and zinc, survived to amass even greater wealth as one of the most active and hardheaded manipulators of New York City real estate, and to distribute an estimated $30,000,000 in charities; in Mountain Lake...