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...Part. The group that moved into Gorley's Lake Hotel was sent from Paraguay and other centers two years ago, to set up a farming community in North Dakota. "It was very difficult," says bearded Eberhard Arnold, son of the society's founder. "All summer long we had to work so hard we couldn't talk to any of our visitors, and all winter we were snowed in, so that no visitors could come...
...What Shall We Do?" The Society of Brothers was born in the dark night of the soul that settled upon Germany at the end of World War I. At Whitsunday in 1919, Eberhard Arnold, a cheerful, passionate man whose spiritual seeking had led him out of the. Reformed Church and into the Anabaptist way of thinking, addressed the German Student Christian Movement in Marburg in words so moving that his apartment in Berlin soon became an open house for young world-changers...
...coming of Hitler made it impossible for the community to continue in Germany. In 1936, a year after Eberhard Arnold died, the 150-odd members of the Sannerz group (which by now included Swiss, Swedes and British, as well as Germans) found refuge on a farm in Wiltshire, England. World War II set most of them on the move again, when the community was boycotted because of its pacifist convictions and all those of German origin were threatened by internment. On a couple of months' notice, they set out for Paraguay-the only place they could find that...
...orchestra's staid members-despite their civil-service status-with ten brass players from a leading swing band, he provoked manifestos and a protest meeting. Passions were further inflamed when the news spread that leading male roles were cast with distinguished opera singers-rising Baritone Eberhard Wächter as Frank Butler; Karl Dönch, famed for his Beckmesser, as Chief Sitting Bull; Tenor Max Lorenz, a renowned Siegfried, as Buffalo Bill. After a rehearsal, onetime Metropolitan Soprano Brenda Lewis, the Annie Oakley and only American in a cast of 80, purred: "I had the impression that Lorenz...
...anyone in the family, Gussie Busch is like Adolphus Busch, the son of a prosperous Mainz, Germany wine merchant, who emigrated to the U.S. in 1857. Settling in St. Louis, Adolphus Busch got into the brewing business by marriage. In 1861 he married the 17-year-old daughter of Eberhard Anheuser, a prosperous St. Louis soap manufacturer who had taken over a small South Side brewery after its owners went broke. When young Adolphus got back from the Union Army, Eberhard Anheuser asked him to run the beer company. He could hardly have found a better...