Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bishop's Wife (Goldwyn; RKO Radio) wishes she weren't. The bishop (David Niven) spends so much time laboring in the vineyard that there is none left for his own garden. It seems that nothing less than a miracle can salvage his marriage...
Painter Tom Benton, clad only in a pair of blue jeans, was busy getting in his hay on Martha's Vineyard when the good news arrived. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts had just spent $2,000 for Benton's latest portrait, New England Editor (see cut). It had been some time since the champing champion of American-school painting had received such a boost...
...posed for the Editor was Benton's Vineyard buddy, 78-year-old George Anthony Hough, whose son Henry runs the Vineyard Gazette and wrote a best-seller about it (Country Editor...
Most of the Armenians in the vineyard country of Southern California had heard the story of Avak Hagopian, the goldsmith's apprentice of Azerbaijan. Four years ago, when Avak was 16, God had appeared in a vision before him. God had given Avak the power to cure. Letters from the old country swore it was true. With a touch of his fingers Avak cured ulcers, paralysis, cancer. He had been tried for charlatanry-and had won acquittal by curing the throbbing pain in his judge's head. He had also won as his staunchest disciple the Iranian army...
Weekly items reflected the activity of a vast if diffused part of the nation's business. In the Northwest they discussed gyppo logging shows. The Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) Vineyard Gazette grumbled about the price of fish: "The market, as we log the doings of last week, is plain lousy-prices dropped like a skate falling into an empty hold. Why? The Lord only knows. But Bay scallops continue to be small and high. . . . Hard up or hard down is the present motto of business...