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...Ray Charles, Édith Piaf and Grace Jones all performed at Forte’s Capannina club where, local legend goes, the Negroni cocktail was first concocted for Count Negroni....
...And Dior Men’s and Fendi artistic director Kim Jones has been a dedicated customer for years....
...Edith Wharton (then Edith Jones) was married in the church. Visitors to certain lots on Sixth Avenue were required to pay a fee to get in, usually a dollar....
...Edith Halpert (1900-1970) was born in Odessa and arrived as a child in New York....
...Wilton has been the country home of the Earls of Pembroke for more than 400 years and was rebuilt in the Palladian style in 1647 by Inigo Jones and John Webb....
...There are many Dafydd Jones photographs of gilded youth partying in the 1980s....
...Piaf; “Too Junior” Jones, a journalist who hauls herself out of writing about hemlines via a frank profile of the fading Billie Holiday; and Orla, who as a 19-year-old worked on Aristotle Onassis’s boat...
...As Edith Grossman, translator of Cervantes, told one interviewer: “You have to hear the original voice in a profound way, and then find the voice in English that best reflects that original....
...The Snakes , by Sadie Jones, Chatto & Windus, RRP£14.99/Harper, RRP$26.99 Jones’s fifth novel is a fantastic read as a thriller, but where Jones excels, is in her microscopic yet compassionate scrutiny...
...architect like his father who designed New York’s Central Park, and nine men met in New York as founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects, only one woman was present: 26-year-old Beatrix Jones...
...The chanson quickly took off in France, with popular versions by Jacques Douai, Cora Vaucaire and by Édith Piaf....
...The sole author of this phoenix song was France’s “little sparrow”: Edith Piaf....
...The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel, chronicles the lives of the Gilded Age’s super-rich, families whose social comings and goings are overseen by the aristocratic matriarch Mrs Manson Mingott...
...Grace Jones covered Edith Piaf’s “La Vie en Rose”. Chic chanted “Le Freak” and produced French pop plodders Sheila & B Devotion, with Sheila’s Gallic accent to the fore....
...Sir Mervyn refused to accept responsibility for the near-collapse of the banking system, although Edith Piaf’s “Non, je ne regrette rien”, which made the governor’s list of top tracks in 2004, was out....
...Also in Montmartre are the much-photographed steps of Rue Drevet, which feature in the Edith Piaf biopic La Vie en Rose (2007)....
...The American writer Edith Pearlman is now 77 and this volume of collected stories is a great introduction to her work....
...“I was wearing the most beautiful Edith Head gown; white satin, with a coat down to the floor, also white satin. Alexandre de Paris did my hair. It was awesome, how they put me together.”...
...Nicholas Jones as Alma’s smooth-talking barrister fully deserves to be called a “silk”....
...Glynis Jones, curator for fashion and dress, design and society at Australia’s Powerhouse, also found a “beautiful printed cotton dress” in the rubbish in a donor’s garage....
...The singer’s mild style keeps things from getting too moody (“You’ve Ruined Me” employs the coy sexual euphemism of a character in an Edith Wharton novel), but what her urbane Americana lacks in rootsiness...
...Towering 18 storeys amidst the cluster of high-rises at the centre of Portland in the northwestern US state of Oregon, the boxy concrete-and-glass structure of the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt building has...
...The novelist Edith Wharton is noted for lunch and overnight visits and then there are lists of menders of broken china or sources of antique furniture in Paris or trousers in Warwick....
...Many of them have been part-funded by a publishing initiative devised by Jones....
...The quote was from Dostoevsky, the attitude was Edith Piaf. Tel 20 7702 2789...
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