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Died. Mrs. Lily Eberhard Anheuser Busch, 83, widow of Adolphus Busch, St. Louis beermaker whose factories covered 70 city blocks; onetime mistress of a kolossal castle at Langenschwalbach, Prussia; owner of the magnificent Busch Gardens in Pasadena, Calif., where the admission fees flow into the treasury of the American Legion; of pneumonia; in Pasadena, Calif. Kolossal were the parties at Langenschwalbach, where servants served barbecues with spades and pitchforks, where the Kaiser feasted, where entire hotels were hired to accommodate guests...
...Damrosch first hinted that his days of active service were numbered, Manhattan has known the New York Symphony Society to be on the lookout for a new and permanent conductor. The German Otto Klemperer (Wiesbaden) was imported for two seasons, tried and found wanting. So was the German Fritz Busch (Dresden) who just completed a trial term of nearly three months. Not for some time, in fact, has anything akin to satisfaction prevailed at a New York Symphony concert until last week. Then Ossip Gabrilowitsch, borrowed from Detroit, brought it a sensitive, self-effacing performance of Haydn...
...BONNIE BUSCH (MRS. CLARENCE M. BUSCH...
Sirs: I have just read in TIME that an informant got $14,000 for notifying the government that Mrs. Anheuser Busch and her daughters were trying to smuggle jewels into this country (TIME, Nov. 28). Please tell me how such a reward may be earned. I think I know of an other case in which justice could be done...
...Busch inherited one-eighth of her husband's $50,000,000 to $75,000,000 estate. On their golden wedding anniversary-to which President Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Emperor Wilhelm and many another sent presents- Mr. Busch gave Mrs. Busch a diamond-and-pearl studded crown of gold valued $200,000. August A. Busch, their son, protested last week that the gems seized from his mother & sisters must be parts of a "rope of diamonds" which his father gave his mother and which she had had broken up into bracelets in Germany this year...