Scion of a long line of German-American brewmasters and brewery tycoons, young George Ehret has been studying singing in Florence for the past two years. Last week Italian police had him up in court along with Miss Grace Gunther, also a U. S. citizen, expatriated for 30 years in Florence. They were each accused of doing in a big way what most foreigners in Italy do in a small way: buying lire at cut rates from illegal black-bourse traders.
The indictment charged that Mr. Ehret and Miss Gunther, working independently, went further, acted as commission...
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