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Almost everyone who has read The Chambered Nautilus knows that the elder Oliver Wendell Holmes was a doctor. But not many know or remember that John Keats, Oliver Goldsmith, Friedrich Schiller, Tobias Smollett, George Crabbe, Robert Bridges, Francis Thompson, and Lieut. Colonel John McCrae (In Flanders Fields) were also medical men. So was Thomas Dunn English, the man who wrote Ben Bolt. Most of these writers were doctors only incidentally, and almost none of their poems in the anthology refer to medicine (exception: Holmes's The Morning Visit...
Stressing that "Germany has not always been an aggressor," Professor Vietor points out that she "was a peaceful nation in the time of Goethe, Schiller, and the Romanticists." He states, however, that a change came at the end of the nineteenth century, when the country desired to assert itself and oppose the "have" nations such as England...
...shellburst in Italy last week killed a terrific character. Frederick Schiller Faust, 51, was serving as correspondent for Harper's. But "Heinie" Faust was, more notably, the incredibly prolific "King of the Pulps" who wrote westerns, romances, whodunits and cinema stories under the pseudonyms Max Brand, David Manning, George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, Nicholas Silver, Hugh Owen, Frank Austin, George Challis, Walter C. Butler, John Frederick, Peter Henry Moreland, Lee Bolt, Dennis Lawton, Frederick Frost. Among his creations were Hollywood's Drs. Kildare and Gillespie, Horseman Destry, Secret Agent Anthony Hamilton, Silvertip the Outlaw...
...body had been very positively identified. Discovered in Schiller Park by Chicago police, the murdered, badly burned corpse was little more than a skeleton, but a Negro woman was certain it was her missing husband. A dentist was equally certain that he recognized the jaw. The woman claimed her husband's insurance...
...more commendable. They're well on their way toward obtaining the necessary angels and permission, and some Saturday soon they hope to have Art Hodes and his band, including Mezz Mesirow, down from the Lawrence Hofbrau, for an afternoon-long jam session. As Johann Cristoph Friedrich von Schiller used to say, "Freude...