Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ferras was born in the seaside town of Le Touquet, the son of a hotel owner who had started to be a violinist but abandoned his career when he cut his left hand on a wine bottle, severing the nerve to his little finger. Father Ferras trained his son until he was 15. Christian won a first prize at the Paris Conservatory, soon afterward made his concert debut in Paris. He has been touring steadily since (England, North Africa, South America...
...topic was Nicholas de Cusa, a 15th century political theorist from the delightful town of Kues in the German valley of the Moselle, the heart of wonderful wine land, "Nicholas library was endowed with proceeds from a vineyard he owned and it's still standing. They celebrated the 500th anniversary last December and issued a postage stamp for the occasion. Really a charming place...
...continental set has been heard murmuring about the marroniers soon to blossom in Paris, the sweet fragrance along the Seine and how the cafes along the Champs Elysees or the Kurfurstendam are putting up their awnings again. The lament of the Eliot House cognoscenti or the bread-cheese-and wine continental wanderers at the Bick for the douceur de vie is especially plaintive as Harvard thaws...
Since the Japanese have fewer jokes than the Jews in Playwright Spigelgass's accounting, Sir Cedric's poker-spined Mr. Asano is doubly inscrutable. He cuts the sweet wine of Actress Berg's sentimentalities by being...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). The Dingaling Girl by Playwright J. P. Miller (who made a name for himself with The Days of Wine and Roses last year) is a new treatment of the old tale about a shy young housewife catapulted to Hollywood stardom. In the cast: Diane Varsi as the modest heroine, Sam Jaffe as the shrewd director, Eddie Albert as the poor but ambitious husband...