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...Marie Courselle knows all too well what he means. Château Thieuley, which her grandfather bought in the 1950s, used to sell about 30% of its output to big French retailers. Then, two years ago, it received a blunt message: Cut your prices, or we'll cut back on purchases. The Courselles refused, and their hypermarket sales dropped by half. They are now busy trying to build up a direct commercial network of their own. That means relying on a handful of merchants to sell into major markets, and doing the rest themselves. When they are not harvesting...
...play centers on Lady Windermere, a Victorian woman who leads a perfect life until receiving some unexpected news from a neighbor. Though Ritchie’s play is not an adaptation, she does put a spin on the time period, changing the setting from the 1800s to the late 1950s. A lot of the ideals in the play focus on being the perfect housewife and having the perfect reputation, which are very applicable to the late 1950s and early 1960s. I think that time period is very recognizable to people, either through pop culture or because they lived through that...
Marie Courselle knows all too well what he means. Château Thieuley, which her grandfather bought in the 1950s and which she now runs with her younger sister Sylvie, used to sell about 30% of its output to big French retailers. Then, two years ago, it received a blunt message: Cut your prices, or we'll cut back on purchases. The Courselles refused, and their hypermarket sales halved. They are now trying to build up a commercial network of their own. That means relying on a handful of merchants to sell into major markets and doing the rest themselves. When...
...DIED. Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Oscar-nominated Italian director; in Rome. A resistance leader in World War II, Pontecorvo's war experiences informed his 1965 masterwork The Battle of Algiers, which depicted the brutal reality of the 1950s Algerian uprising against French colonial rule. While the documentary-style film won three Oscar nominations and the Golden Lion at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, French authorities-outraged by its depiction of torture by French troops-banned it until...
DIED. Ralph Story, 86, TV and radio personality known for his wry on-air manner; in Santa Ynez, Calif. Born Ralph Snyder, the World War II fighter pilot became a household name as M.C. of TV's The $64,000 Challenge in the 1950s. Later he told quirky stories in a then rare casual style on Ralph Story's Los Angeles, an Emmy-winning series that examined life in the city and aired for six years...