54 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS age of five years and never let up until late in his professional life. Ac- cording to his brother, he was a "good boy," always reliable. In fact his brother wrote, "I remember Mother mentioning brother's sitting between two glass windows, an early proof of his remarkable self control." He went from grade school to a classical Gymnasium, then to the Technological Institute of Bruenn, an M.I.T. of Europe in those days, and eventually to the University of Halle a.S. in Germany. He had many fine friends in Europe, one of whom now lives in a com- munity near Emil. This gentleman, Julius A. Szilard, writes as follows: "I spent two years at the Institute of Bruenn. There I met Milo (our nickname for Emil Klarmann) in the Fall of 1920. He was then starting his third year at the Institute and was already working as an assistant to Professor Frenzel in the Department of Physical Chemistry. Milo was a serious boy, a model student, but at the same time he was interested in other things beside chemistry. He loved music and litera- ture. He was a good violin player. We used to go to concerts and to the opera. One season, our last year in school, we had heard Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde' about half a dozen times. Students could buy inexpensive tickets that did not cost more than a cup of coffee and a roll in the coffeehouses frequented by the students. These seats were on the two sides of the top gallery from where you could see only half of the stage. By sitting on alternate sides we could see both halves of the stage in two successive performances. But the stage was not im- portant for Milo the music was the thing. "There are two little stories which may be of interest to you. Milo was a most conscientious student but on one nice sunny winter day, when the hills around Bruenn were full of snow, we could not resist the tempta- tion they inspired. Milo got a toboggan and with another friend of ours (who is now in Melbourne, Australia) we went tobogganing to Schreibwald. Schreibwald was to Bruenn what Van Cortland Park was to New York City over thirty years ago. We had a marveJous time until we returned to the city on the trolley. Milo was carrying the toboggan on his back, standing on the steps of the trolley. As we came to the center of the town a bunch of our fellow students spotted Milo and the toboggan. The boys were amazed to see him playing hooky but they rose to the occasion quickly, and among wild warwhoops pulled him, his toboggan, and his two embarrased friends from the trolley car. Thus ended the only day when Milo played hooky from academic duties, at least to the best of my knowledge. "The other story about Milo has to do with predestination. As men- tioned before, he worked at the Department of Physical Chemistry on the vapor pressures of ammonium salts in aqueous solution, and published a paper on this subject with Professor Frenzel. At the same time he showed the practical nature of his mind by developing a method to re- move surplus hair by means of an electro-chemical process. I believe such depilatory methods have been used since then, but Milo's process was the first of which I knew, and I think it shows predestination. His talents were to serve the cosmetic industry. "We graduated in June, 1922, and I did not see Milo for two years

EMIL G. KLARMANN, THE MAN 55 until I met him on the pier in Hoboken, N.J., in the summer of 1924 when he arrived in this country." Having received his Engineer's degree at the age of twenty-one, and his Doctor's degree at twenty-three, he continued his academic work at the Physiological Institute of the University of Halle a.S. under the famous protein chemist, Emil Abderbalden, a disciple of the great Emil Fischer. He was now an old man of less than twenty-three years. A remarkable feat of learning. By this time he had published several learned scientific articles with Abderhalden. In 1924 he came to the United States to continue his biochemical studies at the Rockefeller Institute. Through a coincidence, he learned about a position at Lehn and Fink, then essentially a pharmaceutical manufacturer. If my data are correct he applied for the position and was hired by the elder Gesell, then plant manager. One senses that Emil took the job with perhaps a bit of reservation. After all, had he not come to the United States to continue his studies and academic career? This was industrial work, not exactly a debasement but definitely an adulteration of his original plans. But fate had spun his cloth and the pattern was set. Emil was to be with Lehn and Fink from that day forward. Starting as a research chemist in 1924 he became Chief Chemist in 1926 and eventually vice-president in charge of research. In July of this year he was promoted to vice-president in charge of technical services to handle the ever expanding line of professional products made by Lehn and Fink. It was shortly after 1924 that his regular morning greeting to his secre- tary, was "das Leben ist kein Schleck"--"Life is not a bowl of cherries." But life was to become a bowl of cherries even though it took a while to gather them in truth it took eleven years. Then one day, returning from an archeological trip to Yucatan (where he studied the old Maya temples) fate threw into Emil's path a girl who was returning from a six-week whoopee cruise. At this point, both Emil and Alvine are hush-hush on the developments. And to me it is very confusing. For on the one hand you have a very cultured Austrian student of the arts and sciences. On the other hand you have a problem child who at first chance "flew the coop" as she has admitted--a product of "la belle France"--doing exceptionally well at the time as a toilet goods supervisor and efficiency expert. Can you imagine two opposite phases more difficult to emulsify? I can't. But then none of us can truly evaluate the universal emulsifier LOVE, until we come in contact with it. So it was here. The opposites met and Daniel Cupid took over. Even- tually the wedding bells chimed and a darn good efficiency expert was taken out of circulation. Interestingly enough his secretary of almost thirty years recalls that