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...crisis, Italy's winegrowers took a desperate and humiliating step: they offered a prize of 1,000,000 lire for a soft-drink formula that would use wine as a base but not taste like wine. In Rome last week, five of Italy's top authorities on vine culture were gloomily contemplating the 46 formulas that stood as finalists in the contest. Unable to bring themselves to taste the stuff personally, they had farmed out the final judgment to Rome's nightclub patrons. When the winning formula is picked, the winegrowers will bottle and sell it under...
Thou Shalt Not. Malan got religion early. He was born of French Huguenot stock in a farmstead named Allesverloren (Everything Is Lost), which snuggled among the soaring mountains and vine-garlanded valleys of West Cape Province. In his parents' devout household, the rule was "Thou Shalt Not." Each evening "Danie" and his younger brother Fanie were called indoors to hear spade-bearded Papa Malan reading from his family Bible to his black servants...
...tangled vine-stems scored the sky-Like strings of broken lyres...
...Award president. Walter Wanger had been on the financial skids since his monumental flop, Joan of Arc; after another failure he went into bankruptcy for $175,000. But he was still a man whose name stood for respectability, culture and the intellectual values at the crossroads of Sunset and Vine. The wife: Actress Joan Bennett, 41, beauteous screen grandmother and one of Hollywood's prime exhibits in the campaign to prove that virtue and glamour can be synonymous. Third in the triangle: Actress Bennett's agent, Jennings Lang, 39, oldtime friend of the family, who frequently accompanied...
...licked the Japs in North Burma? The British like to think that in great part it was the jungle work of His Majesty's guerrilla genius, Major General Orde C. Wingate, who did such a good job of mauling supply lines that the Japanese later died on the vine. In Back to Mandalay, Lowell Thomas concedes that Wingate was a genius, but he strongly implies that it was the U.S. Army Air Forces which showed Wingate how to do his job. Back to Mandalay is Thomas' story of how a crack team of U.S. airmen, in effect...