Word: foche
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...Nina Foch (rhymes with posh, not gauche), 84, made an early splash as the put-upon heroine in the clever melodrama My Name Is Julia Ross, but her keen features and cutting voice soon typecast her as spoilsports and other frosty types. We hope that, wherever she is now, she's getting better parts. Anita Page, 98, starred in The Broadway Melody, the first talking picture to win an the best-picture Oscar. She was also the last surviving star to have attended the first Oscar ceremony in 1929. Evelyn Keyes, 91, played Scarlett O'Hara's sister Suellen...
...money from Spain or Portugal, but I got to try several grapes I'd never heard of. Chambourcin is being used on the East Coast to make weird, interesting reds. And I loved the Midwest's big, tannic Norton grape. I had a dark red grape called Marechal Foch from Pennsylvania that was really different. After all this, though, I still don't know if terroir matters. It could be that the South's muscadine grape is inherently horrifying or just that people who drink sweet tea should not make wine...
There were few couples more chic in all Paris. He was the Baron Robert Augier de Moussac, 48, haughty of glance, with an apartment, where else, on elegant Avenue Foch. She was the American-born Baroness Stephania von Kories zu Goetzen, still stunning at 47, possessed of digs on the Left Bank fully as grand as his. They were seen everywhere, usually together, at Gstaad or Cap d'Antibes in season, and at other times in the toniest watering holes of the capital. Only recently the Paris magazine Officiel de la Couture et de la Mode had ranked them among...
...money despite their splendiferous ways. The baroness had been living by candlelight in her Left Bank apartment, not for romantic reasons but because the power had been turned off for nonpayment. The baron had survived by serving as a house sitter for a rich Venezuelan woman on the Avenue Foch...
...grapes being used are special as well. In Missouri the Stone Hill Winery is producing excellent wines with the native red Norton grape. In Minnesota the hybrid Marechal Foch is featured in Alexis Bailly Vineyard's unique orange-infused fortified wine, Ratafia. South Dakota's Valiant Vineyards boasts a Wild Grape Red that is being successfully sold in Paris...