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Dates: during 1940-1949
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DESIGN FOR POWER-Frederick L Schuman-Knopf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Variations by Schuman | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

This book confirms reports that Clarence Streit (Union Now with Britain) has converted Frederick L. Schuman (Night Over Europe). Since some 5,000 readers faithfully buy all Professor Schuman's books on current history, his conversion must be taken as something of an event. It may also be taken as a timely warning of what happens when an idea like Union Now falls among doctrinaires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Variations by Schuman | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...delegation of Creek, Seminole and Chickasaw Indians, after inspecting the camps . . . expressed unlimited confidence in the success of the Union cause." Veterans of the Crimean war jostled Garibaldians in the lobbies. There were counterfeiters, confidence men, singers, comedians, vendors of obscene literature, prize fighters, gamblers, 5,000 trulls. "Dr. Schuman (all diseases of a private nature, permanent cure or no charge) set up [shop] in the Clarendon Hotel," but soon had to compete with "certain swindlers in the back streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Washington at War | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...less than three first editions of medicine's great classic-De Motu Cordis, by William Harvey (1578-1657), discoverer of the circulation of the blood, have passed through Mr. Schuman's hands. About 17 first editions of this work are extant. The third copy, worth several thousand dollars, Mr. Schuman found in Los Angeles. Its owner, a confirmed invalid, was lying in bed drinking whiskey, flanked by a bar and a vault of rare book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Specialist's Specialist | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

Reprints of medical articles announcing great modern discoveries are as rare and valuable as 15th-Century incunabula. One of the rarest items Mr. Schuman ever handled was a reprint of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's brief essay proving that childbed fever may be caused by filthy obstetricians and hospital wards. Several years ago, Mr. Schuman visited the late Sir Frederick Banting in Toronto, asked him to sell a reprint of his first article on the discovery of insulin. Replied Sir Frederick ruefully: "I have only one copy left on file...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Specialist's Specialist | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

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