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...twins' father; both wanted possession of them; both wanted to marry the widow; neither could legally do so, because both had wives, although neither knew where his wife was. At this stage of these unusual proceedings, the publicity-wise president of Chicago's board of health, Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, father of six, came forward. He had samples of blood drawn from the men, mother and infants to make tests for paternity. A child inherits the characteristics of his parents' bloods in much the same manner as he inherits the shape and color of their eyes...
Because it requires so many performers, the Requiem is seldom performed. But last week a large audience flocked to Rochester's Eastman Theatre and listened spellbound while an enormous aggregation of players and singers thundered it out under the baton of Conductor Herman H. Genhart. No one swooned. The performance of Composer Berlioz' barbaric, brooding score was acclaimed as one of the most important events, and certainly the loudest, in Rochester's musical history...
...sight always filled him with a feeling that the was a part of the past of New England, a deep-seated feeling that his love of the sea, indulged only like an amateur, was as much a vital part of him as the instinct of hunger or love. Perhaps Herman Manville--who had known this harbor like a home--had felt the same intense experience, perhaps had sat on the self-same breakwater, and had distilled that sensation for all time in the story of Ahab and the white whale...
Last week was a week of torment for a Chicago dentist and his wife. Dr. & Mrs. Herman Colan could not decide whether to have their newborn daughter's eyes taken out, or to let her die from the tumor which was blinding her and which, if not immediately stopped by surgery or X-rays, was sure to reach her brain. The infant's left eye first showed the growth when she was four weeks old. If surgeons had removed that eye at once, the child's right eye might have been saved. The distracted parents turned...
Most complete collection of the works of Herman Melville, American novelist and author of "Moby Dick" has been presented to the University by the author's grand-daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Melville Metcalf, of Cambridge, it was disclosed yesterday...