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...Busch-Reisinger Museum is brick-and-mortar proof that even the hatreds of war cannot break the cultural bonds between America and Germany. For forty years, the squat, white building whose tower catches the shadow from Memorial Hall has been the center of Germanism at the University. As such, it has been the target of the distrust and suspicion accompanying two wars and their aftermath's. But war feelings have never hindered the steady accretion of art objects that has made the Museum a world famous storehouse of reproductions and home of the finest collection of German paintings outside Germany...
Both Germans and hyphenated Americans developed the Museum. It was the dream of Kuno Franke, Professor of German History. Its first pieces were gifts of Kaiser Wilhelm, while Adolphus Busch, the St. Louis malt-and-hops king, and his son-in-law, Hugo Reisinger endowed the building itself...
...Kuhn admits that it has been "quite a struggle" to rid the Museums of the stigma born of forty years of national hatreds, but he is satisfied with the progress Busch-Reisinger has made toward its triple goal: to serve the art department, the German department, and the General needs of the University...
...choose between the two, I would be uncomfortable. Martin, for his part, avoids the role of petty raconteur, and concentrates on the Governor's record in state politics. Where Busch rambles on about boyhood trips to Europe and childhood experience, Martin sticks closely to public administration. I am bound to say, though, that Martin includes nothing on Stevenson's work in the AAA, the Navy Department, and the State Department, important and impressive parts of the Governor's career...
...other hand, Busch's book has pictures, droves of them. Better still, it includes 118 pages devoted to Stevenson's own utterances, whose content and style are as praiseworthy as Busch's are not. The easiest answer--and if you are going to read up on the Democratic candidate the best as well--is to buy both...