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This letter refers to a brief article captioned "The Vanishing Druggist" [TIME, Jan. 14]. It is alleged to be a summing up of evidence presented in the January issue of the publication, American Druggist. . . . I referred at once to the source of the alleged "totting up" of evidence and found in the January issue no basis for the statements made in TIME...
...pharmacy a dying trade? Last week the American Druggist, totting up the evidence, said gloomily: well, unless something happens-. About 14% of the nation's 75,000 practicing pharmacists are over 65. During the past four years, less than half the normal number of pharmacy students have graduated. Of the 10,000 licensed druggists in the armed forces, 2,000 will never return to civilian mortars and pestles. One trouble: the rise of the glittering emporium-type drugstores and the fact that pharmacists have to double ingloriously as sandwich cutters and alarm-clock salesmen...
Just where is the dividing line between youth and middle age? In TIME [Sept. 17], Artist Artzybasheff was described as middle-aged (46) while Druggist Ruskin was said to be young (42). Perhaps such a decision largely depends upon the age of the author...
...became an apprentice at Chicago's high-class, high-priced Sargent's drugstore (today he owns half of it). He quit to take a crack at almost everything else, even spent 18 months in Italy studying to be an opera tenor, eventually decided that he was a druggist after...
...than 100 men in the war and new characters must be trained for the roles. Willy Bierling, who played John, is now a prisoner of war in the United States. Many women have married since 1934." (In most roles, married women are barred. Ritto Kosch, daughter of the town druggist, slated to play Mary Magdalene in 1940, has since disqualified herself by acquiring a husband and two children.) Sure of a role is Hans Zwink, Judas in 1934, who follows in the steps of his father (Judas), grandfather (Peter) and great-grandfather (Christus). The current Christus, Alois Lang, lives...