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...image. It's crazy that we are all put in the same basket." Indeed, a central concern in Bordeaux is to avoid a fragmentation of the community. "It's almost like a Latin American economy, some very rich and some very poor. This could cause a revolution," worries Pierre Lurton, who runs two of the most exclusive properties, Château Cheval Blanc in the St. Emilion region and Château d'Yquem, the world-famous sweet white Sauternes. Despite their eye-watering prices, bottles of both are being snapped up by a new breed of very wealthy people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Much Of A Good Thing | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

...move aggressively into a bright new future and more about how to avoid a damaging fragmentation between those who are doing well and those who aren't. "It's almost like a Latin American economy, some very rich and some very poor. This could cause a revolution," worries Pierre Lurton, who runs two of the most exclusive properties, Château Cheval Blanc in the St. Emilion region and Château d'Yquem, the world-famous sweet white Sauternes. Back at Château Pontet-Canet, Tesseron sits down for dinner with his wife Isabelle and a decanter of his house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Spill | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

...chance. The agents offered a chorus of refusals. "It seems too fragmented and dreamlike to be a good commercial bet," wrote Lurton Blassingame. "We regret that we do not have the time here to read unsolicited fiction," explained James Brown. Candida Donadio & Associates demurred with, "When all is said and done, we felt the manuscript lacked that all-important dramatic tension." And from the office of Knox Burger after two follow-up letters from Ross: "I'm very sorry, but we have no record of having received your MS. or postage.' Kosinski is philosophical about the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polish Joke | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...peas to its line until 1907. Cautiously, it added asparagus in 1939, waited another 19 years before putting beans on the market. Only recently has Green Giant hopped boldly into new products. "There is just so much market for canned peas and corn in this world," says President Lurton Eugene Felton, 63, "and we were so concentrated, we were vulnerable." So diversified has the company's line become that even the scantily clad jolly green giant adorning its products has had to vary his appearance: on frozen food boxes, he wears a scarf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: The V.I. Pea | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

Eliot and Kirkland have the largest number of candidates, with five apiece. The Eliot House candidates are Lurton W. Blassingame '56, Rollin B. Norris '56, Arthur C. Rutter '56, David K. Sirota '56, and David W. Torris...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses to Name Eight Members As Council Representatives Today | 12/7/1954 | See Source »

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