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...honored its own martyrology of local saints who had died for the faith-and similarly many towns in modern Germany have their heroes, many of them virtually unknown outside the country. Lübeck, for example, conducts interdenominational religious services every year honoring three Catholic priests, Edward Müller, Hermann Lange and Johannes Prassek, and an Evangelical pastor, Karl Friedrich Stellbrink. Arrested in 1942, the four men became good friends in prison and died together at Hamburg in November...
Dead Mechanism. Western Europe heard the news with anger and dismay. West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard blamed De Gaulle for a "black day," declaring that "the Common Market is now only a mechanism and no longer a living thing." Alfred Müller-Armack, West Germany's chief negotiator at Brussels, quit his job in disgust. Jean Monnet, the dynamic optimist who is the father of the Common Market, lamented that "there now looms disunion with its inherent dangers.'' Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told his country on TV: "What happened...
Time Ticked Away. For his subject matter, Müller often used episodes from the Bible, from Shakespeare and Goethe. He did a series of landscapes and also a number of figure paintings which, like The Accusation, had no literary source. In all his paintings, even when there is a touch of grim humor, the mood of despair persists. The composition of his landscapes is brilliant; but the landscape is so clogged with color that it becomes airless, a kind of prison. In the figure paintings, his creatures are chalky, emaciated scarecrows that stare out from cruel masklike faces. They...
...despair was intensified by the state of Müller's health. Since the age of 13 he had suffered from attacks of rheumatic fever. In 1954 a plastic valve was inserted into his heart to replace a damaged natural valve. The new valve made a ticking noise with every heartbeat, a cruel reminder that the operation had been only partially successful and that time was running out. Four years later, having worked feverishly to the end, Jan Müller was dead...
...Giant Keepers. The American Association of Theatre Organ Enthusiasts numbers more than 1,500 devotees of the Mighty Wurlitzer and its cousins, the Silver Throated Barton, the Kilgen Wonder Organ, the Möller De Luxe, the Marr & Colton Symphonic Registrator. Among the cultists...