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...first folio of Shakespeare's plays, and various works by Dickens, Donne, Lewis Carroll, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Authors presented many of these volumes to royalty and friends. As a member of the Hasty Pudding Club, Widener was also inclined to collect books depicting fanciful costumes from France and Spain, says Henri K. Stegemeier, an associate curator of the Widener Room...
...Europe is leading the move out of three years of recession and near stagnation. Britain, once the laggard of the European Community, is now in the forefront of the Common Market, followed closely by West Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. The southern, Socialist-led countries, France, Greece and Spain, are expected to miss out on the first stages of the upswing. Only Italy will probably join the north in a spurt of growth this year...
Better yet, why don't we drop Britain, France, West Germany, Spain, etc., and ally ourselves with Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, Afghanistan. Magically, they'll break their Soviet ties, they'll become American friends. Why don't we turn the whole world upside down? What loyalty do we own Israel...
Both France and Italy have been feeling competition from Spain, which in the past several years has been producing excellent vintages in quantity, particularly red wines and brisk, clean sparkling wines that sell for a fraction of the price of French champagne. One of the first to attract American attention was Codorniu; the 1981 Brut Classico sells for $4.99. An outstanding example is Paul Cheneau Blanc de Blancs Brut, from Barcelona, which now costs only...
Eisewhere Marques de Riscal, an elegant Bordeaux-like red from Spain's Rioja region, costs $4.99, and there is a $2 mail-in rebate. Rurfino, the largest Chianti producer, offers a $3 rebate on $4.49 bottles of wine. Some stores are offering Italian Dolce Vita white at $3.98 a magnum, plus a second magnum for one penny. The highly regarded Plozner Chardonnay '82 has been reduced from...