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...prices are comparatively high because their fine-wine vines yield only 1½ tons of grapes to the acre, v. twelve tons for inferior varieties. For the same reason, their volume is small; last year, they made only 125,000 gallons (50,000 cases). They have only 700,000-gal. storage capacity, compared to 29.8 million for Roma Wine, 22.7 million for Fruit Industries, 22 million for Wine Growers Guild, 19.7 million for Italian Swiss Colony...
...opened last week's show by announcing: "My rich, velvety baritone is ready to bring you . . . songs that all America never heard of." Abe's song titles include: I've Got a Gal in Calico Who's Dying for a Mink and You Ate Up a Hunk of My Heart...
...does have bad moments--most of them coming in the unfolding of the love story, which was frail stuff in the novel, too. The hero's adulterous affair, which was originally a succession of mildly immoral, quite dull interludes, has been scrubbed shiny clean by the conversion of the gal into an impeccably, impossibly genteel widow woman. Gable contrives to melt this Pallas Athena, Deborah Kerr, by fondling her tots and growling to her when they are not around, "A weekend in the country with separate rooms and sailboats on the water--that's for us, huh, honey? That...
...smiled pityingly, "Yes, but she wasnt' exactly in the bunch, I know. Divine gal, Sturdy...
Courtship. Dirty water from a blacksmith's tub, or the touch of a dead man's hand, will cure facial blemishes. A girl should never comb her hair at night, for this will "lower a gal's nature." On the last night of April, a girl may wet a handkerchief and hang it out in a cornfield. Next morning the May sun dries it and the wrinkles will show the initial of the man she is to marry. When a girl sleeps with her legs crossed, she is dreaming of her sweetheart...