Word: advanceman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sponsored by two Paris newspapers, Parisien Libéré and L'Equipe, the 51-year-old classic took an anxious four months of preparation. At every stop on the route, Advanceman Elie Wermelinger, onetime Ivory Coast banana planter, had to prepare food and lodging for no competitors, plus an army of 1,400 managers, trainers, handlers, masseurs, timekeepers, mechanics and assorted camp followers. Bawling, cursing and exhorting, Wermelinger careened across France, waging a one-man war to bring temporary order out of wild, Gallic confusion...