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After a trip around the world Herr Schliemann went to Paris and studied his subject for five years. His first excavation was at Ithaca; his report of what he found there won him a doctorate from the University of Rostock, much abuse from resentful scholars who had no money to go digging ancient sites. Before he started his big job at Troy, divorced, he wanted to marry an appropriate Greek wife. He wrote to a friendly Greek archbishop to get him one. Her name was Sophia; she turned out to be not only beautiful but a great help. The children...
...Buffalo Express, who claimed he had attended more A. N. P. A. conventions than any other man alive (the reporter failed to note the record number); Zell Hart Deming of the Warren, Ohio, Tribune-Chronicle, "only publisher in the U. S. who does her own fruitcanning"; the ample Frank Rostock, who gripped in his hand, to help him fight down a craving for chocolate creams, a medal presented him by Albert of Belgium as thanks for taking a strong Allied stand in the Cincinnati Post in defiance of his many pro-German readers; John B. Perkins, whose Journal has nine...
...Viennese method of dealing with immoral publications differs somewhat from the Comstockian* method. Last week, one Otto Rostock walked into the office of Herr Hugo Bettaur, publisher of a "villainously immoral magazine." He fired directly at the publisher, who fell, wounded. Rostock announced to the police that he wished to "arouse the moral sentiment of Vienna...
Ziegfeld Wagner, son of the Great Richard, was the author of a new opera presented last week at Rostock, The Blacksmith of Marienburg. The audience was not thrilled. "A mediocre son of a famed father," sighed the critics...
...visiting professor has a wide reputation as a musician in Europe. In his youth he studied singing in London and Frankfort. In 1887 he received the degree of Ph.D. at Rostock. Since 1894 he has been teaching music in the University of Berlin. Professor Friedlander has made musical investigation his special field. He has devoted special attention to study of the works of Schubert. He has edited a new edition of Peters' collection of Schubert's songs, and for many years he has devoted himself to the collection of material for an exhaustive biography of that composer...