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...Gallos are the last major entrepreneurs in an industry that is being taken over by large, publicly held corporations. Heublein Inc., a big distiller and food processor, has bought United Vintners (which makes Italian Swiss Colony and Inglenook) and Beaulieu Vineyards. Seagrams controls Paul Masson and Browne Vintners. Brown-Forman Distillers, the Kentucky whisky maker, recently picked up the distributorship of F. Korbel and Bros., the big California champagne producer. National Distillers & Chemical has acquired Almadén. Two months ago the parent company made an offering of Almadén stock at $20 a share; it has since risen...
Poverty of Success. Established wine makers led the planting rush. Paul Masson, a subsidiary of Seagram's, is increasing its grape lands around Monterey by 10,000 acres, an area two-thirds the size of Manhattan. Christian Bros. is uprooting plum orchards in order to plant vines. St. Helena's Louis M. Martini Co. stepped up production by one-fourth last year. "Like most of the family wineries, we are taking out just enough money to live on and plowing the rest back into the business," says Louis P. Martini, son of the founder. "We have never been...
World War II. From Holland came Piet Mondrian, from Germany Hans Hofmann and George Grosz, from France Fernand Leger, Andre Masson, Arshile Gorky and Max Ernst, providing the new generation of U.S. artists with direct links to Cubism ana Surrealism...
...Partner Joseph Weiner opened a small West Coast firm in 1957 and proceeded to break all the rules, often pussyfooted so softly that it was hard to tell just what they were selling. For an Oregon brewer they campaigned to "Keep Times Square Green"-with Oregon trees; for Paul Masson brandy they knocked vodka ("If you can't see it, taste it, or smell it, why bother?"); for a San Francisco FM radio station they dreamed up the Bach and Beethoven sweatshirts that swept the country...
...shown at Paris' Galerie Andre-Frangois Petit. Amazingly, the colors are as bright as the day Ernst painted them, and each of the 14 canvases carries something of that breathless, rarefied atmosphere of in sight and abandon in which they were created. More important, perhaps, notes Paintei Andre Masson, they prove that Ernst was a precursor as far as Sur realism was concerned. "While the rest of us were still formulating our ideas, he already had his foot in the door...