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Last week for the first time since the Panama Canal was opened to traffic on Aug. 15, 1914, a ship sank in the canal.* In Gatun Lake, half a mile south of the locks, the Dutch freighter Brion suddenly began to list badly, sank before she could be beached. All hands (23) were saved by canal launches...
Chateau Haut-Brion 1919?...
...only flaw in a perfect gastronomic symphony. The Chateau Haut-Brion of 1919 is definitely to light for the true connoisseurs of such heroic, full-bodied, red grands vins, and a surprising number of bottles of this year have not kept well...
...soup, Moselle with the fish, and then we should really begin-we should start drinking clarets!" If to some tyros "claret" means the cheapest sort of vinegary red wine, it means to the initiate a splendorous ascending scale of Bordeaux reds, culminating in massive, regal Châateau Haut-Brion and finally in sublime Chateau Lafite, a wine possessing so grand a flavor and bouquet as to make mere Champagne an anticlimax. After recovering from the ecstacy of sniffing and sipping red Chateau Lafite. however, Mr. George Reeves-Smith likes to end with a white Chateau Yquem, "the sweetest, most...
...line-ups follow: HARVARD 1913. BROOKLYN MANUAL. Brock, o.h. c.p., Cook Forbush, i.h. p., Cooper Bail, 1a. 1d., Heidenreich Beatley, 2a. 2d., Good Jaretzki, 3a. 3d., McTernan Foristall, c. c., Brion Ellis, 3d. 3a., Esselstyn Drucker, 2d. 2a., Hayes Hutchinson, 1d. 1a., Hollister Noble, p. i.h., Jensen Conant, c.p. o.h., Kent Halle, g. g., Higgins...