Startling self realization at Bordeaux society dinner in New York
The narrator attends a private Commanderie de Bordeaux event at The Four Seasons New York. He describes an opulent tasting in Private Dining Room No 1 with oysters, crab, quiche, and hare sausages, paired with 1959 Taittinger Blanc de Blancs. Guests include France’s consul general, Doubeday’s Douglas Black, Alfred Knopf, Barry Gray, Alexis Lichine, and Geoffrey Hellman. The evening features robes, a Bordeaux toast, and a Chagall wall mural, with a decorative table setting by Joseph Baum.
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Commanderie de Bordeaux
Four Seasons
New York City
Taittinger Champagne
Champagne
Michel Legendre
France
Douglas Black
Doubleday Book Company
Alfred Knopf
Barry Gray
Alexis Lichine
New Yorker
Geoffrey Hellman
Thomas
Joseph Baum
Restaurant Associates
Four Seasons Becomes Bordeaux: A Spirited Dinner Scene
Milton R Bass recalls a lavish tasting at The Four Seasons with wines from Ausone Lafite Latour Lascombes and Laville Haut Brion. The narrative covers consommé Turbot and beef with truffles, the heated debate over Ausone vs Lafite, and concluding desserts and cigars as guests praise chef Raymond Sauget and director Stuart Levin.
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Nessetrode
Karl R. Nessetrode
Careme
France
Graves
Chateau Haut - Brion
Pessac
Bordeaux
Haut-Brion
Chateau Laville - Haut - Brion
Kennedy Memorial Requiem to Be Issued by RCA Victor
RCA Victor to re release a two record album of the Kennedy Memorial Service in Boston’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross. The set includes the Solemn Pontifical Mass by Cardinal Cushing and Mozart Requiem in D minor performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Erich Leinsdorf with a 189 voice chorus from local groups. Proceeds go to the John F Kennedy Memorial Library. The project honors the late President with a historic fusion of liturgy and music.
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RCA Victor Records
Boston
John F. Kennedy
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
Richard Cardinal Cushing
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf
Chorus
Pro Musica
Harvard
Radcliff Choral Society
New England Conservatory of Music
George R. Marck
RCA ‘Victor Record Division
RCA Ve
Henry Cabot
Boston Memorial
Kennedy
Cardinal Cushing
Cabot
America
Elvis to film two movies at Paramount lot next spring
Paramount Studio will host Elvis Presley film work next spring with producer Hal Wallis shaping two projects. The singer has Roustabout and Snow Carnival in development at the studio.
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Hollywood
UPI
Paramount Studio
Elvis Presley
Hal Watlis
Marathon 733 Closing in New York
New York theater notes that Marathon 733 will end its run at the ANTA Theater after 49 performances. June Havoc wrote and directed with Lee Strasberg supervising. Julie Harris stars as a vaudevillian drawn into the marathon dance craze of the 1930s.
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New York
Actors Studio Theater
ANTA
June Havoc
Lee Strasberg
Julie Harris
Miss Havoc
Burl Ives Shaves Beard for Captain Role
Folk singer Burl Ives shaves his beard for the first time in ten years to qualify for the captain role in the film Mr Pulver and the Captain.
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Hollywood
UPD
Burl Ives
Mr. Pulver
Captain
Movie Timetable Notes Across The Capitol Palace And Union Square
Capitol shows Move Over Darling at 2 25 5 35 and 8 53 with 3 Fables of Love at 1 00 4 10 7 20 Little Cinema offers short subject at 8 00 and Any Number Can Win at 8 10 Palace screens Children of the Damned at 2 40 5 50 9 05 and Gladiators Seven at 1 00 4 10 7 20 Union Square lists The Cardinal at 1 40 4 50 8 10 County timetable on Page 24.
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Capitol
Palace — “Children of the Damned
Gladiators
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Mr.Thomas
Chanel Perfume Company
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St. Emilion
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Ausonius
Chateau Lafite - Rothschild
Lafite
Ausone
Chateau Latour
Chateau Lascombes
Charente
Raymond Sauget
Stuart Levin
Sauget
Levin
Pittsfield
Social Departments
Ene
Dmosthie
George Herbert
Mitchell
New York Times
Fui
Alain Delon
Camiuss
Doris di Lay
James Garner
Polly Bergen
Leslie Caron
Coh
Fables of Love
Leinsdorf
Saramae Endich
Euhice Alberti
Nicholas
MGM
Tocterecee
Presley
BISON
Union Square
Cera
Putas
Midtown
Motor Inn Dept
Huntington Ave
Mase
Copley Square
N.Y
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Bill Monroe and
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Tex Ritter
June Carter
Pittsfield Boys’ Club
Newberry’s
Lenox House
Lenox Road
LenOx
THURS
Sym
Hank Bar
Dave Benjamin
Ted Shogry
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