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Where once the good, honest words "roast beef" sufficed, restaurateurs now add something like "blue-ribbon beef, thick and juicy." Diners know from experience that the steer got nowhere near a blue ribbon until it was served with a bottle of Pabst. From coast to coast, mashed potatoes appear on menus as "snowflake, creamery-whipped potatoes"; all vegetables, whether frozen, canned or left over from yesterday, are called "garden fresh." In Minneapolis, broiled rock lobster tails turn into "Queen of Hearts"; in Los Angeles, capon becomes "Tower of London"; in New York, string beans metamorphose into "Long Johns." The Hawaiian...
Died. George Wilhelm Pabst, 82, one of Germany's early greats of movie directing, best remembered for 1925's Street Without Joy, a grindingly realistic study of post World War I Vienna with a then unknown actress named Greta Garbo, 1925's Secrets of a Soul, the first film on psychoanalysis, and 1931's movie version of Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera; of coronary embolism; in Vienna...
...Eisner, The Spirit's creator, was one of the best of the comic book artists of the '30's and '40's. He wrote his own strips, and drew them in a violent graphic style related to the German expressionist approach to moviemaking practiced by Fritz Lang, G. W. Pabst, and F. W. Murnau. Eisner's strip was filled with horrifying close-ups, weird shadows, and strange angles. Jules Feiffer claims that The Spirit's world looked "more real than the world of other comic book men because it looked that much more like a movie...
...Pabst Brewing Co.'s 1958 acquisition of rival Blatz violated antitrust law even though the two firms accounted for only 4.49% of national beer sales. Never before has the Supreme Court construed a share of a U.S. market quite that small as infringing antitrust statutes, and Justice Hugo Black's opinion surprised and disturbed even some top Justice Department officials. Said one: "That's getting down pretty...
...belongs to such strong and modern regional brewers as National of Baltimore, Pearl of San Antonio, Schmidt of Philadelphia and Olympia of Washington State. The big marketing battle is between the regionals and the nationals that have set up regional plants to compete with them, such as Budweiser, Schlitz, Pabst, Falstaff and Carling. The smaller breweries are caught between the two; imported beers, which account for only .7% of the market, hardly figure in the battle...