Word: herman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winery, founded in 1883 by a German immigrant, Carl Wente, is small by California standards. It has only 500 acres of vineyards run by Carl's sons, Ernest, 58, and Herman, 54, who started learning viticulture almost as soon as they could walk. Their wines (trade names: Wente Bros., Valle de Oro) are not widely known because the brothers sell chiefly to the carriage trade, do little advertising. Their 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...
...grin, stepped on the stand with some of the greatest names in jazz behind him-Clarinetist Barney Bigard, Trombonist Jack Teagarden and Drummer Sid Catlett. Out in the smoke, waiting for the first golden notes, were half the big noises of U.S. sweet & swing-Johnny Mercer, Woody Herman, Abe Lyman, Benny Goodman (see PEOPLE...
...inspired the "Views" for which Pannini became famous. Perhaps his the spaciousness and sparkle of Canaletto and Guardi, whose pictorial celebrations of declining Venice were equally in demand. But for nostalgic elegance Pannini's Roman Views rivaled anything Venice could produce. Without Pannini, wrote art critic Herman Voss, "a branch of art which is charming in itself would have been deprived of real perfection...
Bill Middendorf came through as expected in the compromise race by easily beating Bruce Preston in the time of 3:40. New Freshman Art Nilsson-nipped Herman Page in the wherry finals, being clocked...
With a change in rowing conditions, times were slower for the second heat and produced a closer contest, won by Herman Page. Off to a bad start, Page pulled up on Roger Clapp to win in 4:09. Clapp's time was 4:14. One man was eliminated in each trial...