Word: bosson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mild. When he is not traveling, Paderewski lives in his 26-room villa Riond Bosson at Morges, Switzerland. Once the property of Fouche, Napoleon's Minister of Police, Riond Bosson overlooks Lake Geneva towards towering Mont Blanc. Paderewski has at different times bought half-a-dozen farms and country estates, including a large walnut ranch in California. But Riond Bosson has for 40 years been the nearest thing to a permanent home that Paderewski has had. There, with his sister...
...Booper. Today, Paderewski has long since passed the peak of one of the most spectacular careers in the history of music. But the life of success that he looks back upon in the pastoral elegance of Riond Bosson was won with bitter years of discouragement and struggle. The son of a small-town Polish farm administrator, he felt as a child the knouts of Cossack riding whips, saw his father thrown into prison as a revolutionist against the Tsars. No infant prodigy, he worked until he was nearly 30 before attracting any public notice as a pianist. His early studies...
...Walcott, Frederic Winthrop, Paul Killiam, Thomas N. Perkins, Andrew J. Peters, Alvin F. Sortwell, Charles J. Bullock, Richard Lawrence, Godfrey L. Cabot, Richard P. Waters, Atherton Noyes, Thomas B. Gannett, R. W. Bird, Samuel D. Warren, Conrad P. Hathaway, James B. Ayer, Oakes Ames, F. J. O. Alsop, Campbell Bosson...