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...frost of 1956 destroyed the vines of tens of thousands of acres, the French wine industry has staggered under the blows of poor quality and decreased quantity. The quality of this year's vintage is matched only by its quality. Jean Latour, producer of the rare white Burgundy, Croton-Charlemagne. says that in this century there has never been a year as abundant or as good. In the Romanée-Conti vineyards, the wine-men say that God waited until Archbishop Roncalli (who blessed the fields after the war, when he was papal nuncio in France) became Pope...
...someone near and dear will die in an air crash on May 14; the story ends in Lady or the Tiger fashion, with the man waiting powerlessly to learn the fate of the plane that is carrying his wife and child to him-on May 14. The Kiss at Croton Falls takes a lighter view of dreams as Mrs, Mull visits companionably each night with her dead husband until he makes the mist ike of bringing a pretty redhead home with him-twice...
Another factor, which applies to soft drinks and hard liquor as well as tobacco, has to do with pampering oneself" and feeling guilty about doing so. Dr. Ernest Dichter, a Viennese psychologist now practicing MR at Croton on Hudson. N.Y., and one of the pioneers in the field, concluded that every time a "self-indulgent" product is sold, the buyer's guilt feelings must be assuaged by couching the advertising in terms to make the self-indulgence morally acceptable; for example, by saying you deserve candy...
...Communist Party. What about the story that he had passed on war secrets to Elizabeth Bentley? He did not deny that he knew her. He said that he had been introduced to Joe North, editor of the leftist New Masses, at his mother-in-law's home in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., where North was living in Mrs. Moos's garage; that North had introduced him to a "John somebody" (who turned out later to be Jacob Golos); that Golos had introduced him to Miss Bentley. He had given her some information, but it was harmless stuff...
...More 85 more people were convinced that the heaviest rainfall in the last 50 years in the Croton watershed, which supplies 30% of New York City's water...