Word: mainz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High in the balmy skies over Naples this week, planes from the U.S. Sixth Fleet will proudly spell out the word NATO. In the ancient German garrison town of Mainz, detachments from NATO armies will march in a grosser Zapfenstreich-the torchlight parade that is the German army's version of Britain's famed tattoo. In Washington the foreign ministers of the Atlantic nations are scheduled to sit around a V-shaped table to hear a speech from NATO's first commander, Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Americans may study at the Free University of Berlin, August 1 to 15, in the Allied zone of the city. For the less hardy, German language and culture courses are taught to students on different levels at the Universities of Bonn, Frankfort, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Mainz, and Tubingen in August, Heidelberg and Kiel in July...
More than 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...
Mystic of Mainz. The world knows little about Mathias Griinewald, less, perhaps, than it does about any other first-rank master. Only a handful of paintings and a bare 33 drawings have come to light in four centuries, but these are enough to make his fame. His greatest work, a tremendous altarpiece of nine paintings which now stands in the museum at Colmar, Alsace, contains a magnificent painting of the Crucifixion. A mystic with a realist's sense of physical suffering, Griinewald made the Crucifixion an epic of wounds and pain seldom, if ever, matched on canvas...
Scholars know little more about Griinewald. They believe he was a lonely, moody man consumed by the religious revolts of the times, that he was court painter to the archbishops of Mainz and Halle for 17 years, that he married but had no children, that he may have visited Italy in 1509 to see the work of Leonardo da Vinci and other Italian masters, and that he died during the 1528 plague in the town of Halle, in disgrace, possibly because of his Lutheran sympathies...