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Liberty Bowl, December 27, at Memphis, 8-3 Purdue, led by dropback passer Mark Herrmann, face Missouri (8-3). Give me liberty or give me death. Well, not exactly. We've already seen Herrmann contained, and Missouri is still an unknown entity. Look for Hermann to graduate with a bang...
During his undergraduate years at Chicago, Sagan spent some summers breeding fruit flies in the Indiana University laboratory of the famed geneticist Hermann Muller, who won a Nobel Prize for showing that X rays could cause mutations. It was ideal training for an astronomer who would become the premier spokesman for exobiology. He also showed early gifts as a popularizer. He organized a highly successful campus lecture series on science, characteristically including himself as one of the speakers; some faculty members dismissed it as "Sagan's circus," but it drew S.R.O. crowds...
...inhabitants are not exactly the folks next door. For inexplicably resurrected on both banks of the mysterious river is every soul who ever lived, from hairy cave dwellers to modern Homo sapiens, from the totally unknown to such famous figures as Joan of Arc, Karl Marx and Hermann Göring...
...friendships, though ardent, usually ended in disappointment. The philosopher Count Hermann von Keyserling begged her to marry him, but she danced mockingly out of reach. The poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who saw in her "something of a lascivious young god in girl's clothes," confessed she caused him "a mysterious and sometimes very painful feeling of needing." Proust, Montesquiou, Rodin, Rilke, Giraudoux and George Moore were all bewildered or enslaved...
Graham, a developer of plastic lenses for eyeglasses, was a friend of the late Nobel Physiologist Hermann J. Muller, who advocated improving the genetic stock of the human race by freezing gifted men's sperm for later insemination of bright women. Converted to Muller's view, Graham several years ago began writing to Nobel laureates, asking for sperm donations. Five said yes, and Graham made collections in the San Francisco and San Diego areas for his subterranean sperm bank-the Hermann J. Muller Repository for Germinal Choice-built on his ten-acre estate in Escondido, Calif...