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Show Writers Turned From Drugs to Authorship It may seem a far cry from the drug store to literary fame, but throughout the ages there has been a puzzling re lationship between the two. Manv a voutb who has started life in a phar 'macy has 'found, strangely enough th-it' his real career lies in authorship says a writer in the American Drug gist Magazine Aristotle was one ot the earliest of these. The Greek philosopher, son ot a physician, fol lowed his father's footsteps as a youtl lu those days when doctor and drug gist were one. Dante. Immortal poet was a member of the guild of apothe carle's in his native Florence. John Keats served as a pharmacist's ap prentice a no later graduated from Apothecaries' hall. Henri Ibsen found the Inspiration for his "Ghosts' and "An Enemy of the People" while serving for six years In a little Nor wegian drug store. And O Henry, probably the most famous of modern rirnggist-ntithors. spent several of his early years In a Greensboro (N. ('.) pharmacy |