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...times change. Today the wine world's great hope is the Asian drinker, for many of whom the consumption of grape wine is an aspirational and pleasurably exotic activity, much like sake drinking is in European or American cocktail bars. Facing stagnant sales at home, the Old World's lordliest vintners must leave their crumbling châteaus, and the New World's biggest brand managers forsake their suburban bottling plants, all to spruik their wares at Hong Kong's wine expos. The trade press is agog at a regional market thought to be growing...
Press lords, like great generals, are expected to be a trifle mad, but the maddest of the lot, and one of the lordliest, was James Gordon Bennett Jr. Of the two James Gordon Bennetts (the father founded the New York Herald, the son added the New York Evening Telegram and the Paris edition of the Herald), Elmer Davis once wrote that "they invented almost everything, good and bad, in modern journalism...
Another documentary showing, last fortnight, was Tunisian Victory, the U.S. and British Governments' long-awaited sequel to Desert Victory (TIME, April 12, 1943). Tunisian Victory is worth seeing if only for a few minutes aboard the two lordliest convoys in history (they carried the British and Americans to Africa). There are some eye-shattering shots of combat, too. The film was made with care and skill, but the intricate military story is told too doggedly, with too much commentary. A general high-surface of tact and politeness reduces the film's forces as a record of truth. Most...
...creator of atoms, the No. 1 U. S. investigator of artificial radioactivity and the headmaster of what is in effect a school for atomic physicists, he was to receive the Comstock Prize ($2,500 and a certificate). With a membership limited to 300, the National Academy is the lordliest body of scholars in the country and the Comstock Prize, its highest honor, is awarded only once every five years. In many quarters it is regarded as the highest U. S. scientific honor...
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