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Discovery in Heidelberg. After working his way through the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Barnes went to Heidelberg, earning his keep as a singer of Negro spirituals in a Bierstube. He and a brilliant young German student, Hermann Hille. worked out the formula for Argyrol, a mild silver protein solution for which doctors had many uses-to treat gonorrhea, including gonorrheal blindness, relieve severe nasal congestion. Argyrol, manufactured in a former flophouse in Philadelphia, was an instant and worldwide success, and Barnes was a million aire before he was 35. In 1928, with superb timing, Barnes sold out Argyrol...
After taking 60 driving lessons, West Germany's Bundestag Vice President Carlo Schmid, 63, soloed through the streets of Bonn in a Mercedes-Benz 220. His adventure ended when he mistook his foot throttle for the brake, piled into the Alt Heidelberg beer hall with his front bumper nosed squarely up to the bar, stepped out with minor bruises. The dust had no sooner settled than the air was filled with political gags. Quipped Bonn's Mayor Wilhelm Daniels, an Adenauer supporter: "I know that Carlo Schmid does not particularly like Bonn, but this is no reason...
...counter skepticism, the U.S. State Department stepped in to confirm "a nefarious plot," and U.S. Army Headquarters in Heidelberg reported that its counter-intelligence agents had discovered the guilty Communist, one Jaroslav Nemec, who works in the Czechoslovak consulate at Salzburg, Austria...
Since most students aim to build up credit for Stateside colleges, only 500 have actually graduated. But more graduates are on the way. Maryland conducts full-scale commencements in Heidelberg (and Tokyo), with caps and gowns, a heady speech by the Governor of Maryland...
Founded in 1409 by Germans who felt themselves discriminated against at Prague's Charles University, Leipzig became Germany's fourth oldest university (after Heidelberg, Cologne and the now-defunct Erfurt). It survived the struggle between Catholicism and the Reformation (Martin Luther had a memorable disputation there with Johann Eck in 1519). By the 18th century it was sternly Protestant in name and happily tolerant in fact. Student Johann Wolfgang Goethe spent much of his time impressing girls in local wine cellars, called the place "Little Paris." "It was a delightfully individualistic school," recalls a West German professor...