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...Adam Poe knocked on every door in Delaware, Ohio, until he had begged enough money to buy the town's unprofitable stagecoach inn. To the Methodist minister, little Delaware, 20 miles north of Columbus, seemed like the perfect site for a Methodist college...
...Some Sort of Craziness . . ." While many another writer (Poe, Dostoevsky, Melville) fought battles against poverty, Andre Gide did his struggling without ever missing a meal or muddying his boots. The only child of wealthy French...
Machiavellian Father. His life might have been modeled on Poe's. His Methodist father, a well-to-do candy manufacturer, seems to have been not merely an unsympathetic parent, but a capitalist reactionary who delighted in Machiavellian devices to keep his son's talents from flourishing. He put him to work 17 hours a day in a drugstore, with promise of "promotion" to out-of-town selling. When Hart got a sales job, with Washington, D.C. his territory, his father sent him there in the summer when the weather was so hot that the candy in his sample...
...after ten years and 1,000 experiments, stocky Scotsman George Brownlee, 37, thought he had something. His research team at Wellcome Physiological Laboratory, Beckenham, Kent, had produced a new antibiotic from bacteria (Bacillus aerosporus) found in soil from a market garden. The antibiotic is called aerosporin (pronounced a-ross-poe-rin). The researchers' tests and findings were reported with cautious excitement in Lancet...
...Hubard had painted gloomy but perfectly proper portraits of Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and Richmond belles for a living; evenings he turned his hand to what he called "Gothick" fantasies. A few, like his Silent Violinist (see cut), were weird enough to recall his melancholy contemporary, Edgar Allan Poe...