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Editor MacLean knew a good glass of wine, a good cigar, but spent most of his money for Scotch whiskey. It killed him in 1928. Popular was never the same afterward...
...Boston hundreds of Bostonians bought wine bricks, dissolved them in water, tended them carefully, made strawberry...
...done for 30 years. He is often visited by his one time Reporters Carl Sandburg (who still writes a column) and Ben Hecht or Critic Hughes, either in his office or at Schlogle's "literary" restaurant where he lunches each Saturday, orders a glass of wine as his concession to being-a-good-fellow, drinks half...
...months ago an independent California concern went a step farther toward simplified wine making. They put on the market a patented grape concentrate in solid form about the size of a pound of print butter. Known as Vino Sano, selling at $2 each, these nonalcoholic wine bricks were flavored sherry, champagne, port, claret, muscatel, et al. Instructions came in the form of warnings against dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, adding sugar, shaking daily and decanting after three weeks. Unless the buyer eschewed these processes, 13%, wine would be produced. Vino Sano's "Don'ts" were...
Thus was started what promises to be a major court test of Section 29 and the flourishing business of urban wine-making in the home. Karl Offer, national manager of Vino Sano, wired Attorney General Mitchell from California that he alone was responsible for the wine bricks and wanted to be included in any forthcoming indictments. He also sought the legal assistance of Mrs. Willebrandt, Vine-Glo's counsel, in working up a defense for his employes, but that lady enigmatically replied: "Sorry, but I never take Prohibition cases...