ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
(incidentally, was Browne Vintners affiliated?).
As many times as Browne won the event, they probably took their name from him.
Seriously, didn't Browne Vintners handle the promotional side of Paul Masson Vineyards?
Euwe and Kolty
" Mrs. Koltanowski was a native of Massachusetts who met her husband, then the chess champion of his native Belgium, on a blind date in New York City in 1944. "
I stand corrected! I was only kidding, anyway, and wanted an excuse to mention Frank Capra.
Rest in peace, Leah and George.
How capracorny!
batgirl wrote:
ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
(incidentally, was Browne Vintners affiliated?).
As many times as Browne won the event, they probably took their name from him.
Seriously, didn't Browne Vintners handle the promotional side of Paul Masson Vineyards?
No wait.... I think it was Orson Welles........
ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
How capracorny!
I remember that..... Henry Miller, right? The rather risque novel, Tropic of Capracorny? I had a copy cleverly concealed in my room when I was a kid.......
"We will serve no wine before you lose on time"
And (believe it or not) my dad was once the night manager there. 
Either way, there was my dad (right in the middle of it).
As for me, I was personally night manager in a fleabag hotel, that was many years ago as a student.
The grateful dead made no song about that one specifically so I'm not sure if the memory is relevant....
Around here nothing is irrelevant (except perhaps chess).
well... Now I've vot this erm... mental picture of a chess player who is a night porter (or of a night porter who is a chess player) ever heard of one?
the best I can get at the moment is Netzetinov and others destroying a hotel or misbeheaving in some hotel can't remember which ...and getting reported to some Central Commitee of some sort
All of which reminds me of a cheesy movie involving Charlotte Rampling.
(and I thought: "Wow, that guy actually played Alekhine!").
. . .not to mention, beat Alekhine.