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...close to three-quarters of a century, hardbitten, weather-beaten Provenqal Peasant Gaston Dominici was virtually a law unto himself. Each year the world passed close to his farm along France's famed Route Napoleon, but the streams of tourists bound for the pleasure domes of the Riviera were as remote from him and his world as so many swallows in the sky. Dirt-poor as all his neighbors, Gaston lived like them close to the soil and the wind and the rain, a hard, dour patriarch who ruled his little family with an iron hand and neither asked...
Twelve years ago he was a foundryman in a Detroit war plant. Today Yerby lives on the French Riviera with his tiny, light-skinned wife Flora and their four children. When he is not whipping out profitable prose in his villa garden in Cimiez, Nice. Author Yerby goes skin-diving in the Mediterranean, skiing in the Alps or whizzing off in his Jaguar XK 120 to attend sports-car races...
...roguish comedy, Always a Bride. Besides being very funny, with some wonderful character sketches, this is a fine recruiting film for the confidence game, representing the crooks engaged in it as particularly enchanting, and the life itself no mean whirl of the most sumptuous luxuries that the Riviera can offer, including the Monte Carlo jail with its beautiful sea-view and famous chef...
Last week, soon after the curtain fell for the last time on his act, Grock and his devoted Italian wife headed for retirement and a 50-room villa on the Italian Riviera. He had earned his rest without question, "but who," asked one of the million-odd friends he had left behind, "will ever be able to make us laugh like that again...
...died in the quiet of a Riviera late afternoon, in his hotel apartment overlooking Nice. His secretary, his nurse, his doctor and a daughter were with him. For 14 years he had remarkably survived the ravages of intestinal cancer, although doctors, in 1941, had given him only six months to live. But at 84, Matisse's heart finally stopped...