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Hundreds of thousands of spectators flocked to Munich for the exhibitions. The municipality was at its wits' end???not how to accommodate the throngs?but how to keep down the price of beer. For the Brewers' Association had agreed among themselves to triple the price of Münchener, and not until the Bavarian government intervened was the normal level reaffirmed. (For Ludendorff's speech see page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gymnasts and Profiteers | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

JOHN BROWN. Like Burr, a man of many schemes, most of them failures; unlike Burr, intent on one end???believing that he had a divine mission. Kindly to animals, kindly to his family, but dominating both and willing to sacrifice them for his purpose, he stirred up a revolt apparently not knowing exactly how he was to succeed, and died on the scaffold believing he was serving his cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mixed Motives* | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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