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...world is largely familiar with the big names--Martell, Courvoisier, Hine and so on--all of which turn out a fine product. There are also several smaller, quality houses such as Prunier, Delamain and Ragnaud. But the best Cognac you have never heard of is A. Edmund Audry. Specializing in Cognacs with large stocks of older base spirits, Audry is difficult to find in the U.S. but worth the extra legwork. (Hint: call its importer for help...
DIED. MICHAEL WARD, 80, British surgeon and mountain climber whose expertise in both areas made possible the historic first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953; in West Sussex, England. Although medical duties kept Ward from the summit, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered it using Ward's expertise in high-altitude medicine and, more important, the route he devised to the summit using an archival map he had unearthed in Nepal...
...When Edmund Morris was here at Harvard in February 1978 – presumably at work on his soon-to-be-released Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880 – a bitter blizzard battered Boston and left Harvard underneath several feet of snow...
...DIED. EDMUND BACON, 95, irascible urban planner (and father of actor Kevin Bacon) whose revitalization of Philadelphia landed him in 1964 on the cover of TIME, which lauded his work as the "most skillfully coordinated of all big-city programs in the U.S."; in Philadelphia. Among his contributions: the conception of Penn Center, a collection of high-rises, shops and restaurants credited with sparking the city's rebirth. Bacon's 1967 book, Design of Cities, remains a staple of many architecture classes...
Thursday, Oct. 20. “Beethoven: Universal Composer.” Edmund Morris, who is best known for his biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, discusses the brilliant (and ultimately deaf) composer. 6:30 p.m. First Parish Church, 3 Church...