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Bobst got his start as a $3-a-week pill pusher in Philadelphia, studied pharmacy at night, and got his license at 20. After managing a number of drugstores in the city, he landed a job as Philadelphia representative for Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., a big pharmaceutical house. Bobst called on all the doctors in the area, sold so many drugs that when Hoffmann-La Roche was going under in the 1920 depression, he was made general manager. He promoted new products, cut overhead, soon had the company in the black. He was made president, boosted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Life Begins at 60 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

Some students come to the Bureau expecting to be given a formula or "pink pill" that will automatically better their grades. Some of those who took the reading course even expected before-hand to have their reading speed raised a certain, specific amount. The ability of the Bureau to help a student, however, depends upon the initiative he takes and how actively he takes part in the discussion, as the final expert in his own affairs. "We serve the student best as his consultant," Perry says. "He can't come and expect to be told what to do even when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bureau of Study Counsel Provides Tips in Exam Writing, Class Work | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...other three C.C.A. members, Hyman Pill, Chester A. Higley, and W. Donnison Swan '19, wish to see Atkinson reappointed. One independent Councillor, John W. Lynch, also has supported him publically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CCA Split Delays Vote on Atkinson For City Manager | 1/29/1952 | See Source »

Deputy Coroner James Leonard arrived. He, too, was sure that Mrs. Butler was dead. The doctor signed a death certificate and left. Then Leonard found empty sleeping pill bottles and notes indicating suicide. Leonard and the police spent a couple of hours making a routine search and filling out forms. At last they called the morgue. Mrs. Butler's body was strapped to a stretcher and carried in an upright position in the tiny elevator to the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: They Thought She Was Dead | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...local distillers, most of whom have gone underground. Cut the boxes from the tin can, following the plans closely. You will have to drill a large hole in the mash container, to accomodate that bottle-looking thing, which, indeed, is a bottle. A small medicine bottle, the pill kind, is supposed to make the best bottle for this still. If you haven't got a drill large enough for that size hole, drill smaller holes around and then file out. Drill, file; drill, file; drill, file . . . you'll get it eventually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Brew Barons Reveal Plans to Make Every College Student His Own Distillery | 11/21/1951 | See Source »

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