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California wine makers shipped some 22 million gal. of bubbly in 1980, up a cork-busting 52% over the 1970 level. French champagne makers in 1981 shipped to the U.S. more than twice as much as in 1971. The lesson was not lost on the French. Moët-Hennessy, a Paris-based conglomerate that is France's biggest champagne exporter to the U.S., bought 1,500 Napa Valley acres in 1973. Its Domaine Chandon in 1981 captured an estimated 25% of the market for sparkling wine made by the French method. The company, whose bubbly retails for about...
...lawyer and lobbyist who helped shape Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal; of a pulmonary blood clot; in Washington, D.C. Corcoran, who had once served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, became an influential member of F.D.R.'s brain trust. Nicknamed "Tommy the Cork" by Roosevelt, Corcoran served as a presidential speechwriter and liaison with Congress, and helped write the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. He was one of Roosevelt's key aides in the Chief Executive's losing battle...
...sports enthusiast, there's The Macmillan Baseball Calendar, which includes key dates from the past as well as those coming up next year. On October 20, 1910, for example, cork-centered baseballs were used for the first time. Stick that in some trivia expert's pipe and have him smoke...
Dinner at Eddie's inevitably begins with the sound of a cork popping from a bottle of Asti Spumante. "We call it lemonade," he remarks with a grin. As he pours the spirits so Bernays, begins his outpouring of questions. He plays at once the inquisitor and the humorist, drawing people out of their shells of self-consciousness to see what they are made of Subtly, he demands the intimacy of everyone whom he encounters. The topic of discussion turns to Harvard. "The university," lectures Bernays, "is suffering from a cultural time lag of about four hundred years, since...