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From Budapest, after a dead silence of 19 days, Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News Correspondent Sam Brewer cabled a story of his escape from Yugoslavia. "Now I know how it feels to wait for a firing squad," he began. His adventures started on his way to Belgrade when a train dumped him out ten miles outside the city. Against a black cloud over the town wheeled the Nazi dive-bombers. Correspondent Brewer, guided by flames, trudged on alone with pack and typewriter toward the city. In the deserted, fire-drenched, shattered streets, stumbling through splintered glass...
...Fortnight ago a fungus was insured by Lloyds of London for $1,000,000. Policyholder is the Falstaff Brewing Corp. of St. Louis, which thus treasures its unique, 50-year-old brewer's yeast...
...snake-specialist son of a millionaire brewer. Returning from an Amazon snake hunt, on the ship he falls in love with a member of a card-sharping trio (Barbara Stanwyck) who has stroked his hair, tickled his ears and seemed eager at just the right moments. Says he in the midst of her seductions: "It's funny to be kneeling here at your feet talking about beer." She comes to feel just the way she seems, but temporarily conceals her past to protect her partners. When Fonda finds out, he gives her up. Out for revenge, she arranges...
...minutes gratis. His tricky rhythms, his obstinate tunes might have stumped an even more experienced company, but the Academy singers-notably pretty Soprano Doris Blake-and a small orchestra under Conductor Vernon Hammond pulled into the final cadence without a grind or a bump. The Masterpiece (libretto by Franklin Brewer) told, with a few leers, about how an artist and his wife sell a picture to a dealer and his wife. Best of four set pieces...
...long 80,000 shares. Three years later his second wife divorced him and married a onetime Prohibition agent. Later, to satisfy her debts, he sold his $1,350,000 estate at Great Neck, L. I. for $169,000. For his third wife, he took an Omaha, Neb. brewer's daughter, Mrs. Harriet Metz Noble, in 1933. A year later he was in bankruptcy -his fourth, for $2,259,000. At 56, he was back where he started...