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...Aboard his flagship, Anderson was a gracious host to many world political figures. He was always careful to court them with such niceties as dimming the lights when their national anthem was played. Only a social drinker himself, he kept them more or less happy by serving a fizzy grape drink that looked and popped corks like champagne, yet did not violate the Navy ban on shipboard alcohol...
Chunky Fan Dale Blasingame, 49, a moderately successful grape broker, glanced around the stands at Fresno, Calif.'s Roosevelt High one day last spring and grinned happily. Scattered among the gum-chewing, chattering teenagers were 30 older but equally familiar figures. To Dale Blasingame, those men meant money in the bank. Every one was a major league scout, and every one was sizing up Dale's 6-ft. 2-in., 185-lb., 17year-old son Wade. "I'm in the business of analyzing values," says Blasingame, "and I had a good idea of what the market...
...Grape farmers and distillers were delighted at the prospect of a vast new market, but most whites were shocked...
...Neptune hanging from the jowls of a metacanine beast. If you walk in hurriedly, you are instantly outdoors again in a huge courtyard, having passed through a small hall with flooring that is a mixture of Pennsylvania linoleum and Spanish tile. The courtyard is full of rosebushes, boxwoods, a grape arbor, and mirrors on an inland wall that reflect the sea. A statue of St. Francis stands in the center in a filled-in pond that once, in another era, brimmed with gallons of champagne. At one end is a playpen big enough for a growing mastiff, but it only...
...forced to migrate? He told us that he sold his farm because his wife wanted to move to California." Replied TV Veteran Mur row blandly: "It is not uncommon to have one thing said to the cameras and another later on." Always aggressive in his gripe against the grape. South Carolina's teetotaling Democratic Senator Olin D. Johnston was determined to beat back attempts to raise U.S. diplomats' "representation allowance," otherwise known as the "booze fund." "I have never heard of the United States influencing anyone to our benefit as a result of feeding him liquor," said Johnston...