Word: schumann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schumann's Sextuplets...
...distance runs, Harvard was at its best, placing in 1500-meter, 3000-meter, and 3200-meter relay. Schumann and Woodberry tied for third in the pole vault, and Green's third in the 50-meter hurdles completed the scoring for the Farrellmen...
...Dionne case leaves me cold. I have something to show you." Thus spoke Obstetrician Edward Armin Schumann of the University of Pennsylvania last week, at a gynecologists' meeting in New Orleans. Upon a screen flashed a lantern-slide picture of six wizened black babies, alike as shoe-buttons. Continued Dr. Schumann: "Here are sextuplets, born to a mother on the African Gold Coast, without the help of modern medicine, without any Dr. Dafoe. These babies were alive and well after eight days, I am informed in a letter from a missionary friend...
...story was a front-page wonder until Dr. Schumann belatedly recalled that his picture was taken 30 years...
...fist at a thunderstorm. Brahms' end was more prosaic and not until lately was it described by his housekeeper, the only one who witnessed it (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933). He had cancer of the liver and he caught a fatal cold standing in the rain at Clara Schumann's grave. On his death bed he spoke little, because his false teeth kept slipping. His last words were "Ja, das ist schon." His reference was to some wine that a friend had sent...