Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...names. For many a talented newcomer, a musical grubstake is still virtually impossible to find. In the audience at Tanglewood last week sat a man who has committed much of his time and most of his fortune to changing all that. He is 49-year-old Chicago Wine Importer Paul Fromm, and he was at Tanglewood to hear the works of two of his protégés, Ben Weber's Serenade for Strings and Alvin Epstein's Sabrina Fair, premiered by members of the Boston Symphony...
Forced to Flee. When he set up his Fromm Music Foundation four years ago, Paul Fromm was nourishing an ambition as old as his student days in Germany. The son of a prosperous wine grower, he early became an enthusiastic supporter of contemporary German music, was on the point of establishing a music foundation in his homeland when he was forced to flee the country during Hitler's pogroms of 1938. In the U.S. he prospered quickly, set up his own wine-importing firm and bought into several other businesses. By 1952 he was ready to turn his attention...
...DRINK LIMIT will be imposed by airlines on domestic flights to head off possible congressional action against drinking aloft. Size of the drinks: 1.6 oz. No limit on beer and wine...
...Mixer. In Hot Springs, Ark., a demonstration of a new drunkometer at the Arkansas Municipal Judges Council had to be postponed after Volunteer Detroit Phillips, primed with whisky, vodka, wine and moonshine, passed out just before the show...
...extraordinary meeting of the 110-man Central Committee that the word must be spread gently: Italian Reds would resent having been buggerato (hoodwinked). For the first time since his return from Moscow in 1944, Togliatti and the Soviet leadership are being criticized at cell meetings (and more openly over wine glasses at the corner trattoria after meetings...