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Enter Adolphus. The Anheusers and the Busches got together in St. Louis before the Civil War, when Adolphus and Ulrich Busch, young sons of a vast family (21 children) of German immigrants, married two daughters of Erberhard Anheuser, a small and not very successful brewer. Son-in-law Adolphus, who combined a Teutonic genius for organization with the salesmanship of a pitchman, soon built up annual production to 25,000 barrels. In 1876, he got a new and better beer formula from a local restaurateur and called the new brew Budweiser...
...main characters in the sTory are gargantuan figures: Mr. Thrale, a lecherous, rich brewer, who stubbornly ate himself to death; Mrs. Thrale, a wonderfully vital, earthy character capable of marrying a second time for love after 18 years of marriage in which she had borne twelve children, and the bulky, bearlike Sam Johnson himself...
After one deep, horrified breath, Hollywood struck back. Urbane Movie Czar Eric Johnston denounced the Johnson measure as an effort to set up a "commissar of the morals of the American people." A Johnston Office spokesman called it a "police state bill." Chairman Roy Brewer of the Motion Picture Industry Council described it as "the first step toward totalitarianism." In the Los Angeles Mirror Columnist Florabel Muir asked: "I 'wonder how many U.S. Senators could pass a purity test?" In a column titled "Look Who's Talking!" the Hollywood Reporter's William R. ("Billy") Wilkerson pointed...
...Yardlings will try to end their season with their fifth victory in six matches. Their coach, Van Brewer, has sen double duty most of this week; varsity coach Butch Jordan left for Connecticut Wednesday and just returned late yesterday afternoon...
...freshman front, Van Brewer's men journey to Exeter for a 2:30 p.m. match. Johany Lee, Yardling captain, led the Exonians in a similar capacity last year...