Harry Hershfield

"New York City Mayors I Have Known" might be the better title for this 1954 installment of Campus Press Conference featuring guest Harry Hershfield -- columnist, cartoonist, and "Toastmaster Extraordinary."

Contents; Wristwatch presented to Mr. Herman Styles; various speakers including Harry Hirschfield, Robert Moses.

Henson Styles is awarded a wristwatch in celebration of 20 years as the Associate Editor of the New York Daily Mirror and administrator of the Welfare Fund, which supports the Mirror Youth Program. ...

He's an expert on New York City's mayors.

This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.

Recording of celebration at 106th Regiment Armory in Brooklyn. Includes speakers and performances.

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

WNYC archives id: 68417
Municipal archives id: LT1

This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.

Manetti begins the evening by discussing scholarships and reading telegrams (from Truman, Dewey, the US ambassador to Italy). Foley gives Pope a Distinguished Service Certificate in honor of his late father, ...

Harry Hershfield returns for a second time to read the newspaper comics during the newspaper deliverymen's strike. He reads Dick Tracy, Joe Palooka and Bringing Up Father.

Harry Hershfield reads the daily newspaper comic strips by invitation of Mayor La Guardia during the newspaper delivery man strike.