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unusual facts about Louis A. Hirsch



Adolf Philipp

Two Islands (1907); music by Louis A. Hirsch, E. Ray Goetz, Harold Orlob; libretto by Adolf Philipp and Mortimer M. Theise

Clay Blair

Blair criticizes President Harry S. Truman and his Secretary of Defense, Louis A. Johnson, for failing to maintain the military's readiness in the years immediately following World War II.

Concerned Foreign Service Officers

Concerned Foreign Service Officers (CFSO) is a group of current and former Foreign Service and Civil Service employees of the U.S. Department of State, cofounded by William Savich and Daniel M. Hirsch, created to investigate, document and expose alleged misuse of the security clearance process by the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service (DSS).

Crazylegs Classic

The race, first held in 1982, was named in honor of Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch.

Emil G. Hirsch

Hirsch is the namesake of the Emil G. Hirsch Metropolitan High School of Communications, located in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood in Chicago.

George A. Hirsch

George Aaron Hirsch (born June 21, 1934), is a magazine publisher, a founder of the New York City Marathon, a candidate for United States Congress and a television commentator.

From 1984 to 1986, Hirsch was the on air host of a weekly segment on ESPN's SportsCenter called “The Runner’s Corner.

He ran much of that race with Joan Benoit, who went on to win the first women’s Olympic marathon in 1984.

Greer Post Office

It was designed by New York City based architect Donald G. Anderson, with Louis A. Simon as the supervising architect.

Herbert D. Riley

In the late 1940s he had duty in the Strategic Plans Section of the office of the Chief of Naval Operations and served as an assistant to United States Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal and hus successor Louis A. Johnson, and then was student at the National War College.

James S. Hirsch

James S. Hirsch is an American journalist and best-selling author who has written extensively about sports, race, and American culture and whose most recent book is the first authorized biography of Willie Mays.

He was a reporter for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and his first book was the best-selling Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter.

John E. Osborn

His father was a lawyer, and his maternal grandfather was a prominent airline industry executive who also worked in the Pentagon and was close to former U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson.

Lockheed XC-35

The Air Corps brass were so confident in the new technology that they allowed the XC-35 to be used as an executive transport for Louis Johnson, the assistant secretary of war and future Secretary of Defense.

Louis A. Craco

Louis A. Craco is a New York City lawyer, partner with the law firm Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, and a former president of the New York City Bar Association

Louis A. DeSimone

John Cardinal Krol later named him coordinator of the Italian Earthquake Relief Fund for Friuli, his work for which earned him the Commendatore al Merito della Repubblica Italiana from the Italian government.

He received his episcopal consecration on the following August 12 from Cardinal Krol, with Bishops John Graham and Martin Nicholas Lohmuller serving as co-consecrators, in the Cathedral-Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul.

Louis A. Merrilat

He participated in the Battle of Château-Thierry, Second Battle of the Marne, and Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

Louis A. Simon

Simon served as Supervising Architect in the Office of the Supervising Architect, U.S. Department of the Treasury from 1933 until 1939, when the office was moved to the Public Works Administration / Works Progress Administration.

Louis A. Waldman

In the spring of 2008 Waldman was among of a number of scholars who independently identified a painting of the Annunciation in a provincial museum of Hungary, the Móra Ferenc Múzeum in Szeged, as the work of Giorgio Vasari.

In 2007 an international media coup resulted from the claim by Mária Prokopp art historian and Zsuzsanna Wierdl art restorer that a fresco in the Archiepiscopal Castle of Esztergom in Hungary was the work of Sandro Botticelli.

Louis Johnson

Louis A. Johnson (1891–1966), second United States Secretary of Defense, from March 28, 1949 to September 19, 1950

Michael Perlis

After Rodale Press acquired the George A. Hirsch magazine Runner from CBS Magazines in January 1987 and merged it into Runner's World magazine, Perlis was replaced as publisher of Runner's World magazine by Hirsch.

Reubin Askew

Mike Thompson, who managed the 1970 Republican gubernatorial primary campaign waged by state Representative L. A. "Skip" Bafalis, sat out the general election between Kirk and Askew.

Ridgeview Classical Schools

Grades K-8 follow an enriched Core Knowledge curriculum as defined by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. and outlined by the Core Knowledge Foundation.

Robert Hirsch

Robert M. Hirsch, American hydrologist, works for the U.S. Geological Survey

Robert L. Hirsch

Hirsch directed the US fusion energy program during the 1970s evolution of the Atomic Energy Commission (including initiation of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor), through the Energy Research and Development Administration to the present Department of Energy.

Scott Air Force Base

In early 1949, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson initiated a series of economic measures throughout the armed forces.

The Voice of the Ancient Bard

However, there is another opinion introduced by E. D. Hirsch, Jr, that the poem “belongs neither to Innocence nor Experience”.

Vera Violetta

Vera Violetta was an operetta, with a libretto by Louis Stein and music by Edmund Eysler, additional music by George M. Cohan, Jean Schwartz and Louis A. Hirsch, about the flirtatious wife of a professor.

Vernon Prichard

Throughout his football career at West Point, Prichard's favorite receiver was Louis A. Merrilat from Chicago.

William J. Hirsch

Although best remembered for his affiliation with King Ranch, in California he trained horses for several other prominent owners from the East Coast such as Harry Isaacs, Alfred G. Vanderbilt II, Joan and Jock Whitney's Greentree Stable as well as Edward Lasker and his wife, the actress Jane Greer.

Yaro Dachniwsky

In 2009, he became the Sports Medicine Development Director at Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago.


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