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Apple production is 25 times what it was in 1914, grape acreage has multiplied ten times. Orchards are irrigated by underground pipes. Farm workers get $60 monthly, a farm director $340. Last year farm workers got bonuses in kind: 400 Ibs. of apples, 300 Ibs. of plums, 1,400 Ibs. of melons, tomatoes, pumpkins, beets...
...food that serves also as drink was reported last week by Harvard Medical School's Professor James L. Gamble. Glucose (grape sugar), said Professor Gamble, can profitably replace part of a man's water rations...
...promotion of Hope himself, as distinguished from Pepsodent, belies his gags about his good friend. Last year Pepsodent paid $225,000 to finance Hope's supersuccessful Army camp tours (TIME, Sept. 20), a new high. (Jack Benny-also a smart man with a dollar-recently decided to leave Grape-Nuts for Pall Mall cigarets, where he too will get a budget for personal promotion.) The fact seems to be that a team like Luckman and Hope pays off both partners...
...Grape-Happy Orphan. Probably the highest-paid bird in the world ($500 a radio performance), Raffles belongs to the explorer-lecturers, Mr. & Mrs. Carveth Wells. Mrs. Wells adopted Raffles in Malaya four years ago after its mother was killed by a snake. Mrs. Wells worked hard on the bird's diction, avoiding profanity, and taught Raffles to speak only on cue (a process involving bribery with the bird's favorite food-grapes). A major crisis developed when Raffles picked up a Southern drawl from the Wells's Negro maid, but that crisis passed when the maid picked...
...whom it summons either by name or by making a noise like a buzzer. A noisily temperamental showoff, it breakfasts on hard-boiled egg yolks and orange juice, later polishes off a raw carrot and a slice of banana mixed with mockingbird seed. Good performances mean good meals of grapes. But this diet has to be regulated, because Raffles sometimes gets grape-happy and will not perform at all. Raffles sleeps in a nest of hot-water bottles. Being a tropical bird, it could not live otherwise...