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...plaintiffs, four British sherry producers, are demanding that they not be enjoined from using the word "sherry" on their labels The defendants, Pedro Domecq, Gonzalez Byass (Tio Pepe) and two other Spanish sherrymakers, argue that true sherry comes only from the vineyards around the Spanish town of Jerez. Since "sherry" is merely a corruption of "Jerez," they say, it ought to be reserved for the Jerez product, just as British courts have reserved the name "champagne" for France's Champagne district...
...Grover Sayre, author (Rackety Rax, etc.), newspaperman (New York Herald Tribune, etc.), Hollywood scenarist (Gunga Din, etc.), scholar (Oxford, Heidelberg, etc.), a Midwesterner who looks like a transcendent ward boss and has also been described as a "wandering behemoth." Friend Pepe is black-haired, blue-eyed, impeccable Pedro Francisco Domecq, Vizconde de Almocaden, U.S. representative of his family's ancient (1730) Spanish sherry business, whose tart, fluent radio style amiably betrays his delight at becoming a teacher...