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Frank Donald Coster graduated from Heidelberg with an M.D. and a Ph.D., practiced medicine in New York City from 1912 to 1914. He quit practice to become president of Girard & Co., a small drug manufacturer owned by his mother's family. In 1926 he bought control of McKesson & Robbins, old and honored New York drug house, and made it the nucleus of a nationwide manufacturing and distributing business...
...pages of a diary. The prose of Michael is of such high intensity that it almost blows out a fuse on its first page. Opening sentence: "No longer does the thoroughbred stallion snort under my loins," which means that Michael is home from the War. Michael goes to Heidelberg, grows lyric about a blonde maiden in the seat ahead: "Do I love Herta Hoik?" he asks himself. "I almost shudder at the crudeness of this word." But when she sends him a red rose: "Herta Hoik, I love you! I transform my little room into a royal palace...
...Manila Bay. He went to work as a straw-hatted, barefoot youngster delivering ice and baggage by mulecart to pay for his education. Perhaps the most, if not the best, educated member of the House, he has studied at Baker University (Baldwin, Kans.), Harvard, the University of Berlin, Heidelberg, Oxford. To pay his way, he worked not only as a drayman but as a teacher of philosophy, a lecturer, for one summer as a Methodist minister. His itch for politics took effect one day in 1916 when he substituted for his father on the platform at a Republican rally, made...
...Named for the late German Astronomer Max Wolf of Heidelberg...
Professor Franz Weidenreich, noted physical anthropologist at Heidelberg and Frankfort Universities, will lecture on "Does Peking Man prove human evolution?," at the Institute of Geographical Exploration today at 5:30 o'clock...