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...Freshman each has been contributed by "a big game hunter, a missionary, a detective, a brewer, a governor a milkman, a state supreme court justice, a ship cleaner, a special agent for federal bureau of internal revenue" (not James Cagney), "a weaver, a mayor, and a welfare director." Whether University Hall's failure to lump this matter with "a Y. M. C. A. director" was accidental or a reflection on Y. M. C. A.'s welfare capacity is not known...
...touts, thugs, politicians and demimondaines has for its sphere the mansion rented by Remy Marco (John Harrington). Marco has been a brewer for some years, but only legally since 1933. It is consequently of some embarrassment to him when his faithful retainer Mike (Joseph Sweeney) discovers upon arriving at Saratoga that an upstairs room is occupied by four "parties." These parties, Mike reports, have firearms in their laps and poker cards in their hands, but their sport has been spoiled by someone's having shot them all dead. It subsequently develops that the parties had just knocked...
...speed to brew 400,000 bbl. a year, is more typical of the industry than Anheuser-Busch, Pabst or Schlitz. Pfeiffer's president is William George Breitmeyer, nephew of the German brewmaster who founded the company. Shy and laconic at his desk but jovial away from it, Brewer Breitmeyer has a simple explanation for his own success: "I have only one hobby. I collect friends." An aid in this hobby is his stock of old German drinking songs, inherited from his uncle...
Richly illustrated with old photographs, the book contains one of a strikingly handsome youth seated at the controls of an early (1913) Wright pusher. The young man was Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, son of a wealthy Philadelphia brewer. Popular as an amateur automobile racer and pioneer sportsman pilot, Early Bird Bergdoll was to become notorious four years later as the No. 1 U. S. draft-dodger during the War. Grover Cleveland Loening says Grover Cleveland Bergdoll's reason for evading the draft was that he was refused a commission in the U. S. Air Service...
...mentioned our old friendship, because if you had not, good taste would have prevented my doing so. . . . There certainly would be something wrong with me if I did not get a tremendous kick out of that." Also very much on hand was big, beefy Colonel Jacob Ruppert, ably pressagented brewer and baseball tycoon, who contributed $20,000 and some beer to the $1,500,000 Byrd Expedition and had his name put on the supply ship which the Government threw...