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Novelist Sinclair Lewis and globe-trotting Dorothy Thompson made a glamorous couple, but their marriage was stormy and it ended in a bitter divorce. Miss Thomp-on recorded every detail, from the giddy courtship to the last wrathful grape, and Sheean squares the famous family circle with some superfluous amateur analysis...
...starter suggested navel orange and whizzer white. Along Madison Avenue, and in Mineola, Mamaroneck and Montclair, the game caught on. Eagle has been deluged with a chromatic list of imaginative new colors. Among them: gang green, forever amber, sick bay, hash brown, dorian grey, hi ho silver and statutory grape. Upcoming out of Quakertown: a shirt in "unforeseeable fuchsia...
...France last year, his 1,800 peasants and their families burned down the bidonville (shantytown) where they had huddled in squalor for generations, and moved into their former master's dwellings. The wine presses and bottling machinery are in good order and ready to process the bumper grape harvest expected this month, although ex-Owner Borgeaud took the formula for his red wine with him to France and no one is quite sure how to achieve the same product. There are other problems; tomatoes, for instance, are being sold to farm workers for 1½? a lb. but cost...
Died. Edgar Thomas Welch, 82, eldest son of the founder of the $54 million Welch Grape Juice Co., maker of half the world's grape juice, who became president when his father died in 1926, four years later with his three brothers gave 10% of the company's common stock to its 300 employees as a Christmas gift, then resigned to spend he rest of his life and fortune on good works for the Methodist Church; after a long illness; in Westfield...
...byways, Ainsworth is one of a vanishing breed of peripatetic reporters. By his own estimate, he has logged 1,500,000 miles in not quite 40 years, celebrating things that few of his colleagues would bother to write about. "This is the only city in America where a dried grape ranks on a par with President Kennedy, the atom bomb, Nikita and the Cuban Reds," he wrote from Fresno a fortnight...