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Consumers' Report. In Lodi, Calif., growers arranged such tempting displays at a grape festival that spectators hurdled the guard rails, ate up the exhibits...
...gold is the grape on the vine...
...Desert Blossoms. But Di Giorgio had plenty of cash to buy cheap desert and range land in California's Kern County. Irrigated, the desert blossomed with fruit trees and grape vines at Arvin and on a 5,000-acre ranch north of Delano. Since then, production has been the main business of the Di Giorgio Fruit Corp. In 1930, he sold out his prosperous Atlantic Fruit & Steamship Co., an outgrowth of Atlantic Fruit...
With the cash, he bought a small winery of his own-primarily as crop insurance. (Frostbitten grapes, unsalable as fresh fruit, are usable for wine-making.) This paid off a few years later when the grape crop was frosted. His winery turned what might have been a half-million-dollar loss into a half-million-dollar profit. Last year he sold out for almost $7,000,000, but did not get out of winemaking...
...highfalutin language, Jazzman Condon scorns the earnest critics of jazz-and once earned the gratitude of his colleagues by his cavalier attitude toward a French expert on le jazz hot. Said Eddie: "I wouldn't think of going over there and telling them how to jump on a grape...