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...first place, 1921 was not all that wonderful, and no one can accurately predict the quality of a vintage two months before the harvest. Even then, prognosis is difficult. The highly touted 1959s, for instance, are already beginning to fade, while the rather rough 1957s are just beginning to achieve real quality; the 1934s, downgraded at first, became splendid...
...Pisani turned out to be a pretty good prophet after all: 1964, harvested, and much of it still bubbling to fermentation in casks of Bosnian oak, may well be a notable year as well as an abundant one. For all France, it is a happy relief after disastrous 1963-a summer so wet and sunless that many of the great vineyards, such as Château d'Yquem and Château Cheval Blanc, sold their entire harvest as vin ordinaire...
...thirteen years old. Long ago before Squanto taught the New England Separatists how to fish and raise crops, the Virginians were exporting thousands of pounds of tobacco to satisfy the nicotine hunger of England. Jamestown was earlier, bigger, and richer than Plymouth. Yet we commemorate the Pilgrims' first good harvest, and all but ignore the Virginia colony...
...Virginia colonists barely survived their first years in the New World. Like the Pilgrims, they persevered. Against Miles Standish's bungled courtship of Priscilla Alden, the Jamestown legend can put the capture of John Smith by Powhatan and his rescue by Pocahontas. The counterpart of the Pilgrim's harvest feast in Virginia was the arrival of a relief expedition on June...
...canned Scottish pheasant at $6.98, has become the nation's largest retailer of records (40 million last year) and paperback books (15 million). Already the world's largest restaurant chain (1,706 luncheonettes), it is also planning to serve liquor in some of its "Harvest House" restaurants outside the stores. Grant's has auto service stations and prescription pharmacies, and both Grant and Woolworth now offer 24-month credit plans...