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Some of our correspondents ate Christmas dinner in style. Steve Laird was invited to a castle outside London where he "drank good wine and listened to 1928 American phonograph records." In Cairo P. B. Stoyan dined in Oriental splendor at the home of an Egyptian Bey, a good Moslem who allowed neither women nor wine at the three-hour feast (which included five meat courses). In the Argentine Holland McCombs played host to the bachelor correspondents with an asado (barbecue) right on the edge of the pampas. And half the world away in New Delhi Bill Fisher, Bill Vandivert...
...Franklin Nichols. With hobbies running from gardening to handsetting type, Boyd shares some of Jefferson's own tastes. Among topics of lasting interest treated with passion and discrimination in the writings of the great Virginian: politics, government, history, art, science, literature, agriculture, music, architecture, education, mathematics, business, newspapers, wine-drinking...
...Lady Astor and many another listener last week it was plain that Britons are examining the prospects of peace with greater unity and hope than they have had before. It was also plain that the same heady wine was working elsewhere...
...worth living. That night the father goes back for the first time to the store. A shy young sailor (Henry Morgan) turns up. He is the dead boy's closest comrade. Together the boy's father and his friend clink cut-glass cups of loganberry wine, in the mild Puritan salute which had first linked father & son as mature males...
...only prisoner who is politically as sophisticated as the Nazis, is cold-blooded in his preference that the broken taxi-driver should die rather than return to infect his comrades with despair. The young bourgeois lawyer (Jean Pierre Aumont) is horrified when his fellows plot to kill the wine-merchant without a trial, yet he succeeds him as a trusty. He manages to negotiate an escape for several of his friends, yet cannot bear to break jail himself unless the tortured taxi-driver has the daring to come with...