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...Austrian customs inspector on the German frontier of Austria in 1889. Shy, nervous and inclined to keep to himself, Adolf was encouraged by his mother to do watercolors. In his 'teens he became an orphan, went to Vienna, tried to be a painter, became a builder's helper ("house painter" to his critics) and emigrated to Munich with $4 in his pocket rather than perform his Austrian compulsory military service...
...made famous: dean of men at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, Ill), Graduate of Illinois (1890), onetime professor of rhetoric, onetime acting dean of the College of Literature & Arts, he became in 1909 the first U.S. dean of men: chastener of delinquents, soother of parents, information bureau, helper of the needy, social and moral adviser. A year ago he reached 67, age limit for university officials, was asked to stay on until the University's new president, Harry Woodburn Chase, was installed. Also, they wished him to break in his successor, Fred H. Turner. This April he announced...
...Edison's private secretary Meadowcroft. He said that Mr. Edison liked our paper very much. We also had a letter from the Governor of our territory, George A. Parks. I was especially glad to get the letter from Edison's Laboratories as I would rather be a helper of Edison than anything else in the world...
...nationalists did not ban it for home consumption as they did Carl Laemmle's picture. The framework is the friendship of four German soldiers and their varying fates. Best sequences: the soldier who goes home to find that his wife has deceived him with the butcher's helper...
...mule would be loaded: a tent for the preparation of the "wet plates" (which were sensitized in the tent and put, dripping, into the camera); vats for the chemical solutions; a tripod which would support a piano box: a camera nearly as large as a piano box: a helper...