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...Vin rose, instead of ice tea, would do wonders with corn beef and cabbage, and House meals might be the high points of the day. If it is possible, affability and general good fellowship would increase in the dining rooms, and the sparkle of conversation would be supplemented by champagne and sparkling burgundy. Of course, the academic side of the University could help in its own small way with snifters before each class. Red wine before a meaty lecture, and white wine before a fowl...
Lionel won the freshman title, edging Hollis by a scant two points, eight to six. All Lionel's scoring came in the 165-lb. match, as Gerry O'Connor defeated teammate Stan Freedman. Two Hollis boxers, Vin Aok and Ray Gallo, reached the finals, but each lost the decision. John Bower beat Aock in the 135-lb. class and John Todd decisioned Gallo in the 155-lb. match...
...overproduction of poor, low-priced grades. Almost half of France's home-wine crop comes from le Midi méditerranéen, roughly the region between Marseille and the Pyrenees. It is cheap, tart wine, and much of it is mixed with Algerian wine and sold as vin rouge, which must be consumed quickly, or it will turn sour...
...restaurant, with its almost militant, straight backed chairs, have attracted many notables. Genevieve remembers William Faulkner, who used to eat lunch in the same corner every day, as "a small man, sharp blue eyes and a moustache. He seemed to be watching for something and always ordered Coq au Vin."Thornton Wilder and Miro frequented the restaurant, but neither made the impression on Genevieve that Louis Jouvet did, in a single visit. He came to Henri IV early one evening, out of temper and unwilling to talk. With some escargots and two bottles of Chateauncuf du pape all this changed...
Stunning as the facts were, to the French Half-Wets they were infinitely more potable than the drastic solution proposed by the British and Scandinavians: total abstinence. Tanned, fit Jean Borotra, onetime (1927 through 1932) tennis champion of France, told the congress that a glass of vin ordinaire with meals is just what the doctor should order. "You can't change people's habits," Borotra concluded. "We can't ask [the French] to give up the wine they love so much...