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Salvage Cases. The actor in question was Wayne Rogers, 41, star of TV's M*A*S*H*. When he is not playing the show's martini-mixing Army surgeon, Trapper John, Doc Rogers carries on with a different operation. As head of W.M. Rogers, Inc.-Managed Investments, he takes care of the financial affairs of half a dozen clients (among them Actors Peter Falk and James Caan) and deals with such financiers as Lyons and Los Angeles Industrialist Lawrence Weinberg. Insiders estimate that Rogers' company is worth several million dollars. His holdings-with Falk and others...
...sort of man . . . who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment." That caricature of the desiccated plant-eater still pervades the English-speaking world. The very language is meaty with bias. Imagine a Beaneater martini, a fatted kale, a yam actor, a string of Turnip 'n' Brew restaurants...
...President's crusted pipes were strewn about his quarters in the Akasaka Palace. There were the mixings for a good martini to get his blood circulating before the formal dinners and speeches. When Ford gathered his staff at the start of his Japanese stay, they threshed over the weekend football scores before they got down to energy, trade and nuclear weapons...
Such venerable California winemakers as Louis Martini, Krug, Heitz and Wente have long marketed excellent varietal wines. But their small northern coastal-county vineyards kept supplies low and prices relatively high. The race to mass-produce varietals began in the valley around 1970; statewide, by 1973 there were almost as many acres of wine vineyards planted but not yet producing (140,000)* as there were acres bearing fruit...
Before dinner in his pre-presidential days, Ford was a two-or three-martini man; now the libation consists of one or two. With dinner comes a wide selection of California, French and German wines chosen by Betty Ford, who is the family oenophile...