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Petrus comes from a gray-stone chateau 15 miles east of Bordeaux that is co-owned by Jean-Pierre Moueix and Lily Lacoste-Loubat. The operation is run by Moueix's son Christian, an art collector and jogger who attributes Petrus' quality to the chateau's mature, 40-year-old vines and to his own green thumb. He personally oversees the cultivation of the vines and claims to have given each one individual attention. Says he: "I call them people. I have seen each of them." Every fall, when the grapes reach just the right degree of ripeness, 180 workers...
Plush Hopes. The possibility of rebuilding the opera has long obsessed a New Orleans businessman named Walter L. Loubat. In his childhood he sold peanuts and was an usher in the old building. Last winter Loubat formed the New Orleans Opera House Association, gathered $7,200 in subscriptions, planned to raise more with popular-priced opera...
Last week Loubat had a summer season of opera going full blast in the City Park stadium, was drawing an audience of 4,000 a night. If the box office held good, Loubat hoped to net $25,000, sufficient for a down payment on the old opera-house plot. Loubat also hoped to follow his outdoor opera with a winter season in New Orleans' Municipal Auditorium. Rock-bottom estimates on his rebuilding plan run to about $285,000. He thought he might be able to rebuild...
...second prize of the Loubat award for the best work in English on the history, geography, archaeology, ethnology, philology or numismatics of North America, has been awarded to Dr. Herbert Joseph Spinden '06, Curator of Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology at the Peabody Museum...
...second prize, consisting of $400, accrues to Dr. Spinden for his book, "The Reduction of Maya Dates." The awards were established by J. P. Loubat in 1893 and are given to those judged worthy, every five years. First prize this year went to the late Professor H. L. Osgood, of Columbia University...