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...build a sixth plant in Columbus, Ohio (it is still building a fifth in Houston), added that its output this year will reach 12.2 million barrels v. 10.4 million last year because Busch brands (Budweiser, Michelob, Busch-Bavarian) have captured another 1% of the market. At the same time, Falstaff Brewing Corp., Busch's St. Louis neighbor and the fourth-ranking beer company, bought Narragansett Brewing Co., New England's largest brewery, for $19.5 million...
...such strong and modern regional brewers as National of Baltimore, Pearl of San Antonio, Schmidt of Philadelphia and Olympia of Washington State. The big marketing battle is between the regionals and the nationals that have set up regional plants to compete with them, such as Budweiser, Schlitz, Pabst, Falstaff and Carling. The smaller breweries are caught between the two; imported beers, which account for only .7% of the market, hardly figure in the battle...
HENRY IV, PART I & HENRY IV, PART II (Caedmon). There are those who believe that Falstaff is the greatest comic character in English literature, and these recordings will not disappoint them. Anthony Quayle's voice combines the tavern-soaked grossness of "fat Jack" with the agile wit and arrogant flair of Sir John. Michael Redgrave as Hotspur seems at times to get only false teeth into the part...
...today, all the world's a sound stage. The Outlaw of the Red River, with George Montgomery, is now shooting on the banks of the Tagus River. Yacht to Jamaica never left Barcelona. Nor did Horst Buchholz as The Man from Istanbul. Orson Welles's epic of Falstaff, Chimes at Midnight, is packing up in Madrid, but Henry Fonda is just digging in around Segovia for The Battle of the Bulge. And in suburban Madrid, it looks as if Franco lost the Civil War after all: there, in a set ankle-deep in marble-dust snow...
OPERA: Baritones rarely get the girl, but this year they take the cake. Geraint Evans turns in one of opera's great characterizations as the lecherous old swindler in RCA Victor's Falstaff, amply supported by the other singers and by Conductor Georg Solti. In Rigoletto (Deutsche Grammophon), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. best known for his sorrowful lieder. proves himself equally expressive as the tragic hunchback in a powerful performance led by Rafael Kubelik...