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George Merck had already started the family which was to carry on the U.S. business. He settled with his wife (from a Darmstadt family) in Llewellyn Park, N.J., within a stone's throw of Thomas Alva Edison's home and laboratory. In 1894 his first child (of five) and only son, George, was born...
Young George Merck grew up in the pleasant country demesne of Llewellyn Park, spent his summers sailing in his father's naphtha launch on Lake Hopatcong, traveling abroad or around the U.S. In the Harvard class of 1915, Merck finished his B.A. work a year early, and planned to go to Germany for a doctorate in chemistry. World War I prevented that. His father said: "Come on into the shop. The war will be over in a few months and then you can go and get your degree." But as Merck says: "I never...
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LABOR The Marengo Campaign For John Llewellyn Lewis the week began in acute suspense. It ended in one of the greatest victories of his thunderous career, after a battle which John pompously compared to Napoleon's bitter campaign on the plains of Marengo...
Hands in the Brain. Childe Rosie progresses through Italy to the accompaniment of a mighty lurching, whanging and screeching of the prose mechanism. Anybody with half an ear would call for a garage stop, but Author Llewellyn doggedly goes on piling up mileage. His princess does not get angry: she "looked through scarlet lace." A soldier does not feel regret: "hands were wringing in his brain." Snowy's leg is not suddenly weak: it goes to "laughing gristle." Other Llewellynisms that would flood any ordinary carburetor: "A quick thrust of pity alchemised her feeling to a silt of motherly...