Word: leipziger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edmund de Schweinitz of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine. Dr. de Schweinitz, 71 this week, is also the son of a bishop, in the Moravian Church. *Including his great and good friend Karl Sudhoff, also 79, world's leading historian of medicine, who traveled from Leipzig for the ceremonies...
Gustav Stresemann was born in Berlin in 1878, the son of a beer merchant. Father Stresemann had higher plans for young Gustav than the beer business. Scrimped pfennigs sent him to Berlin and Leipzig universities, found him. a good job in an association of chocolate manufacturers, paved the path that brought Gustav Stresemann to the Reichstag...
...great dreary candles. Near was a very showy wreath blazoned with a crown and W from onetime Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. Next day Stresemann was buried with peaceful pomp. Not a militarist, there was not a uniformed soldier in his cortege, which was led by members of his Leipzig student corps, bearing his student cap, which now lies with him in his grave. The funeral's pace was set by the dull thudding "Death March" from Gö;tterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods*), interrupted by low, whining air planes from which whipped taut black streamers...
...best bestsellers. Reason: it is a literary mystery. For Henry Handel Richardson is but the nom de plume of an authoress who conceals her real name. She is a robust, middle-aged London woman, long and strong of face, wife of an able scientist. Born in Australia, trained in Leipzig for the career of concert pianist, she published in 1908 a musical novel called Maurice Guest. Admired by discerning critics, this novel has enjoyed quiet prestige for 20 years-from time to time a new edition is printed. In 1911 she planned a trilogy. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony...
...Vermont baggageman. Dr. Davis sold newspapers in his youth, learned telegraphy, worked his way through Dartmouth, later won a traveling fellowship and received a Ph.D. at German University of Leipzig. His malady incurable, he said last week: "Of course, I don't want to go-this is a mighty interesting world and I'm having a mighty good time in it. But I'm no more afraid of it (death) than I am of walking through the door to this study, for I know that I shall have a spiritual body to do with as I please...