Word: pharmacist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dancing Dandy. The facts are that his family was connected with the Polish nobility, and his father was a well-to-do pharmacist in Baku. Andrei Yanuarevich, as he was called, was a spoiled young dandy who liked to dance, dress well, and take full advantage of his middle-class social position. He wanted to be a lawyer, but at Kiev University in those turbulent years at the turn of the century, a student had to make a political choice, or forego ambition. Figuring that the Czars were about washed up, Andrei chose the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social...
...village two years ago because there was shooting every day. Now there is no place left for me to go." The problem to the three men was common: Hanoi, their city, was in danger. "We have had many scares in the past seven years of war," said a Vietnamese pharmacist. "But this time I think we all know that something will happen...
...Jowly Harry Ford Sinclair, 77, announced that he will step out as a director of Sinclair Oil Corp. on May 19, and sever all connections with his billion-dollar oil empire. A pharmacist by training, Sinclair was lured from his father's Independence, Kans. drugstore into wildcatting by the oil derricks outside town, and made his first $1,000,000 within eight years. During the Teapot Dome scandal of the '20s, Sinclair was acquitted of conspiring with Interior Secretary Albert Fall to defraud the Government, later served 6½ months in jail for hiring private detectives to shadow...
...newspapers as "ogres") at the age of three, because they kept him trussed up like a ham and suspended from a beam in the living room. By the time he was twelve, Kikuta had gone through six foster fathers; the last one sold him to an Osaka pharmacist for $50. Escaping, Kikuta finally made his way to Tokyo, landed a job as assistant scriptwriter for a third-rate girlie show in the capital's bawdy Asakusa district. During the war, he spent three months in South China as a historian for the Japanese navy, writing patriotic plays and radio...
...secret formula and was bewildered by science, bureaucracy and his own invention. He refused to reveal the secret formula, but identified the main ingredients as anhydrous sodium sulphate and "a slightly basic, nearly anhydrous magnesium sulphate." That, snapped Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, a licensed pharmacist, "is nothing but Glauber's salt and Epsom salts. One of them you give to horses, and the other you give to people." Ritchie said he didn't think so, but added that seven "secret trace elements" furnished the real kick to his powder, he thought...