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...TIME, June 13], when up pops saphead John Muller (TIME, June 20) who forgets that our popular American, Colonel Lindbergh, made the New York-to-Paris flight with only three sandwiches and a bottle of milk.* What German could accomplish this wonderful feat with less than a keg of beer, a barrel of sauerkraut and a whole roast pig ? We Americans do first and talk afterwards, that is why we were so successful in the World...
...George Jean Nathan who love to employ dynamite prose for blowing up anything at all just to see how it looks in little bits. "Steeplejack" Huneker, as he was known, liked to exasperate the uplifters of the late Victorian era by his disgraceful behavior. Many a stein of beer he quaffed in scandalous company. Many an adventure he enjoyed because no proper person would. Slyly he defended the social standing of young ladies with bodies like "white satin stoves." He exulted in his holy war on behalf of Chopin. He inspired the admiration, even the imitation, of the religiously individualistic...
...Samuel Butler's famed novel but Perley Poore Sheehan's little-known story supplies the framework of the great German actor's first U. S.-made film.* It concerns one August Schiller, who flourished in Milwaukee back in the days when gentlemen associated that town with beer, and when ladies carried muffs. The first half of the film shows him a pillar of society, plain, foursquare, sunk in a large family. A doting father of six, a pompous cashier in his bank, a champion bowler, he is admirable in all things, full of little unpricked vanities...
...sausage and pretzels and beer...
...course, lost in a fog, developing engine trouble-due perhaps to the new brand of gasoline-the Columbia smashed its propeller while making a forced landing in a muddy field near Kottbus, 70 miles southwest of Berlin. To Chamberlin and Levine, the good burgomaster of Kottbus offered beer...