A Bostonian and a veteran of both World Wars. CHARLES R. CODMAN served as a combat pilot in the American Air Force (1917—18) and as Senior A.D.C. to General Patton {1912—45). As a connoisseur of wine and a lifelong friend of France he has selected and brought back many a famous vintage to S. S. Pierce, and on these visits he has been admitted to a charming, touching association with that intimate circle responsible for some of the best-known vineyards of Europe.
The state of affairs in Morocco has become almost as important to those who believe in NATO as it is to the security of France. A Bostonian and a veteran of both World Wars, CHARLES R. CODMAN served as a combat pilot in the American Air Force (1917-18) and as Senior A.D.C. to General Patton (1942-45). He made his first visit to Morocco in 1925 at the time of the Riff uprising; his second during Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa in November, 1942. when he was the first American Liaison Officer assigned to the French Protectorate; and his third last winter.
For many years consultant on nines to S. S. Pierce Co., CHARLES R. CODMAN knows the products of the European and California vineyards from direct experience mulched by few other experts. In the October Atlantic he will report on the wines of the Loire.