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Acquitted. Andrew Donaldson Kirwan, 23, son of Mme Paul Dubonnet (Jean Nash), "best dressed woman in Europe"; of a charge of murdering one William Sessoms after a quarrel about religion on the Dollar liner President Garfield (TIME, March 26); by a Federal jury; in Manhattan...
Last week it was revealed that Andrew Kirwan was none other than the son. by a prior marriage, of Mme Paul Dubonnet, better known to the public as Jean Nash. "best dressed woman in Europe...
When the wife of France's famed maker of aperitifs heard of her son's plight, she hastily prepared to go to him. Dressmakers, milliners, shoemakers, hairdressers and manicurists stood in line outside her Paris home to outfit her for the trip to the U. S. M. Dubonnet fluttered about the apartment warding off reporters. "Under the present circumstances," he explained, "it seems reasonable to understand that my wife cares to make no statement. I am accompanying her to New York tomorrow. ... I am doing all in my power to spare her. . . ." Once before, when their secret marriage...
...before the War there were hundreds. Where there were only 20 or 30 big importers before, hundreds have now rushed into this highly-specialized field. Schenley has Charles Heidsieck's champagne, ports and sherries from Gonzalez Byass & Co., French wines from Barton & Guestier, Noilly Prat & Cie., French vermouth, Dubonnet and the strong red Brioli Chianti of Casa Vinicola Barone Ricasoli. Most important, it has Bacardi...
Banyuls, contrary to what you mention, is not in any way a wine comparable to Dubonnet or Byrrh: it is a perfectly natural wine, completely uncolored, and containing no quinine or any other material whatever. In fact wine other than purely natural, coming from other than a certain specified region, made from other than certain specified grapes, cannot be shipped or sold under the name of Banyuls. It is, as you say, a dessert wine, and not an aperitif...