Word: petry
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recognizes that an outside board is better for public relations and stockholder relations-to say nothing of its position in a proxy fight. Last week California's S & W Fine Foods, Inc., long dominated by an inside board, lost five of the nine seats to Louis A. Petri, president of United Vintners, largely because of stockholder dissatisfaction with the old board's policies...
...down in the chronicle of the San Domenico convent at Fiesole are the simple facts about Fra Angelico: in 1407 "Fr. Joannes Petri de Mugello iuxta Vichium, optimus pictor, qui multas tabulas et parietes in diversis locis pinxit, accepit habitum clericorum in hoc conventu . . . et in sequenti anno fecit professionem."* To this, Vasari adds only that Fra Giovanni's name was Guido, that he was born in 1387, and entered the Dominican monastery "chiefly for the sake of his soul and for his peace of mind...
Rider's Percy Belvin set the British mark of 2:27.8 at the Empire Games in Australia, but Leonard Spence, who swam on the U.S. Olympic team in 1936, set the world record in 2:25 flat. As a sidelight, Brooks also coached Elsie Petri, the girl who held the women's world 500 and 600-yard breaststroke marks...
Wineman's Choice. Last week, after a frost in the San Joaquin Valley nipped vines and sent the price of sweet wine in bulk up to 37½? a gal. (from a low of 32½?), many a vintner thought Petri had made a smart buy. To swing the deal for Italian Swiss Colony, he had borrowed from the Bank of America. That the bank was willing to plunge into the precarious winemaking business was a pat on the back for Petri...
...Previous Big Five U.S. winemakers, in order of capacity: Roma (30,000,000 gals.); California Wine Association, a growers' cooperative (29,650,000 gals.); Italian Swiss Colony (26,000,000 gal.); Wine Growers' Guild, a cooperative (22,000,000 gals.); Petri (20,000,000 gals...