Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Adolphus Busch III, 55, fourth in line of the great beer-barrel dynasty, president of Anheuser-Busch, multi-million-dollar brewers of Budweiser; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in St. Louis...
Last fall, when he conducted the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin, the best critics in the house-the orchestra members-cheered him. Glowed Dunbar: "They're wonderful. Boy, I could drink five gallons of beer!" Some in the audience, accustomed to Brahms and Wagner, found the cacophony of William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony a little hard to take. So did some in the audience at Hollywood Bowl last week. But they were impressed by the conservative and competent way he handled Weber's tried & true overture to Oberon, Aaron Copland's El Salon Mexico...
...gotten on the swindle sheet. And a pile of score cards from Braves Field and Fenway Park. And the slick program from the Longwood Cricket Club. There was the radio with a crack through its plastic side suffered the night he'd been a little athletic with an empty beer bottle. That would have to go. All this and only one small suitcase. There was a pile of magazines and newspapers Vag had hoped to take with him, the clippings from the Sporting News and the columns from the Stock Market page. He'd have to give them the deep...
Last week they knocked off work, got happily into velvet jackets or laced bodices and flowing skirts, tapped 300 kegs and 2,500 cases of beer and had a celebration even bigger than their annual Wilhelm Tell festival. The occasion: the town's 100th anniversary fete...
After that Ben talked a blue streak. His vocabulary was limited to just those three words: "I want one." But he pronounced them for chocolate, beer, bones and other delicacies. People flocked to hear Ben utter the three words that are uppermost in the minds of food-rationed Britons: "I want one." London newsmen "interviewed" Ben. Dog fanciers bid for him (top offer to date: ?500). For one and for all, Ben said graciously: "I want...