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...million in 1972 and 1973 alone. This spring Paul Kalmanovitz, owner of San Francisco's General Brewing Co., bought control of Falstaff for $10 million. Other 1975 brewery turnovers: Theodore Hamm Co. of St. Paul, once tenth in the industry, bought out by Washington's expanding Olympia Brewing Co.; and C. Schmidt & Sons of Philadelphia, currently being taken over by G. Heileman Brewing Co. of Wisconsin, which also brews Blatz and some 30 other brands...
...Frank Sinatra keeps doing things his way, he may soon have to begin his second retirement. Now completing a five-country singing tour through Europe, Frank found his blue eyes staring into empty seats in West Germany last week. Half the 10,000 seats in Munich's Olympia Hall were vacant for his first concert, and a second performance in Frankfurt fared almost as badly, causing Sinatra to cancel an appearance in Berlin and refund more than $85,000 to organizers of his West German tour. "Sinatra just is not part of the nostalgia wave now rolling over Germany...
...WEST: Washington State plans to buy a private collector's life mask of George Washington, one of three in existence, for about $375,000 and display it in the state capital, Olympia, by July 4, 1976. But most Bicentennial projects in the West are drawn from the region's own history and heritage. Alaskans are rebuilding the Tlingit and Haida tribal houses in Angoon and restoring a log headquarters built in 1793 by Russian fur traders in Kodiak. Hawaiians are constructing a 60-ft., double-hulled sailing canoe in which a crew of 24 will leave on April...
...Olympia, Wash...
...Great Old Time Jazz Festival is tonight on Long Field in Framingham, and features the Jeff Staughton High Society New Orleans Jazz Band at 7:30 p.m. Stuaghton's band sounds like a local imitation of real New Orleans bands like the Olympia, which are made up of old black men and women who grew up as Jazz did, in the teens and twenities, and are carrying the tradition. It's good to see people like Staughton, if they're faithful to the music and play well, carrying on the best music in the world...