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Perfect Frosting. His son was an "introvert" who desperately wanted to better himself, said William Bremer. Arthur's one passion was "books -books on math, books on psychology. He wasn't bright, but he read a lot and he passed most of his subjects. Honorablemention didn't mean nothing to him in a class. Jeez Christ, if his team didn't get a run or a score he'd come home and yell and kick at things." At other times "Artie baked a lot at home -cakes and cookies-and he made perfect frosting...
Then, wringing his large rough hands, Bremer said: "I used to pound it into my kids, 'You've got to find yourself, you've got to find yourself.' 'Aw, forget it,' Artie'd say. He never paid any attention to that. Yeah, I spanked my boys. Roger got his cracks, and Artie got his cracks too. He must have been very sick. None of us knew it. But he must have been a very sick person." Draining half his beer, William Bremer concluded: "I just hope to God that no parents have...
...exclusive Milwaukee Athletic Club and as a janitor at the Story Elementary School. Cutting himself off from his family, he slammed the door in his mother's face on the two occasions she tried to visit him. "Arthur did it to Wallace on our wedding anniversary," Sylvia Bremer says bitterly, "and he didn't even know it was our anniversary...
...year-old high school freshman, telling her that she was his first girl friend. Says she: "He didn't act like a 21-year-old. He didn't know how to bowl or rollerskate. I don't think he knew how to do anything." Bremer impressed her as "weird" and "childish" by insisting that they talk about her "hang-ups." One hang-up was her refusal to accompany him to pornographic movies. "He really needed some kind of love," she says of their breakup, "but it wasn't going to come from...
...scribblings found in his apartment indicate, Arthur Bremer considered himself something of a writer. One of his most telltale works is a theme written in October 1968, during his senior year, in high school. Entitled "Guitar," it begins by describing some weekly guitar lessons taken by a boy named Paul. The boy's instructor is George, who teaches at a Milwaukee music school at "twentieth and Greenfield." Midway, the theme abruptly turns to reflections on "Paul's" home life...