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...fill that gap, Restaurateur Victor Bergeron, better known in 13 U.S. cities as Trader Vic, rallied 20 oenological experts for a year's study, and last week uncorked the first guide to the wines of California, whose annual production of 143 million gal. accounts for 76% of all the wine consumed in the U.S. Vic's list rates 99 wines from a top of three stars ("the finest"), to zero stars ("highly acceptable"). His eleven three-star choices, all in the $2.50 to $5.50 range at stores...
...Carolina's Randy Glover didn't have to win any of last year's 37 tournaments, could wind up 19th down the money list and still take home $42,522.11. Ladies' golf, with its smaller purses and fewer tournaments, is quite something else. Unless the gal happens to be Kathy Whitworth ($28,658 in winnings last year) or Mickey Wright ($196,382 in twelve seasons) pro golf is strictly egg salad-and sometimes not much of that...
...specify a bottle of Préfontaines to a sommelier will make his eyeballs roll. Préfontaines is very much a vin ordinaire, the sturdy stuff that washes down the bread and cheese and accounts for 90% of the 1.5 billion gal. of wine drunk by Frenchmen every year. It will never make a select wine list, but it has made another important listing: the shares of the Préfontaines company, D.M.S., have gone on the Paris Bourse for the first time. This is an indication of the success of Préfontaines in France...
Bombed with Beer. Préfontaines, with annual sales of 52 million gal. worth $51 million, controls just 4% of the French market, but that is more than any competitor has. And only Préfontaines has Marc Henrion, 39, a Harvard Business School graduate, as director-general. At Harvard he distinguished himself by bombing the Baker Library with empty beer cans as he flew over it in his old Fairchild. Harvard grounded him but graduated him too ('50), and the next year he had a chance to apply his learning when André Dubonnet, of the company that...
...arrived 40 lbs. lighter-down from 200 lbs.-and with 13 gal. of water still in the hold. To the adventurer, the climax was the saddest part of the voyage. "Only twelve miles to go," he tells Tinkerbelle, whom he regarded throughout as "my dearest companion," and then he adds: "The thought brought on a faint stabbing of pain...