Word: amours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Triomphe. Despite devaluation, the mile-and-a-half event for three-year-olds and up paid the winners a whacking $122,857. At post time, a few infield sentimentalists dredged up their last sous to get aboard Rita Hayworth's filly Double Rose. Amour Drake and Val Drake, wearing the funereal black silks of Paris' most dramatic relict, the dashing young widow of Theatrical Magnate Leon Volterra, were the heavy favorites, but form players plumped for Textile Millionaire Marcel Boussac's triple entry of Djeddah, Coronation and Norval (Boussac horses had won the Prix five times...
With her eyes closed ecstatically, she gave them Hymne à l'Amour; then her gallant song of the Foreign Legion, Le Fanion de la Légion. By the time she had gotten through her prayerful Bonjour Monsieur Saint-Pierre and the piquant one that Piaf partisans will walk miles to hear -her own composition, La Vie en Rose, this time with a chorus in English-the fans were pounding their hands...
...crossed the Channel to win the race dearest to English hearts: the Epsom Derby. Last week, the French came within a whisker of winning again. It took Nimbus, a game chestnut bred by a bookmaker and owned by the wife of a British barrister, to outlast French-owned Amour Drake in the 170th and richest of all English Derbies (the winner's bundle...
...Paris, Rita Hay worth watched Aly Khan finish next to last in a horse race for gentlemen jockeys (gibed the railbirds: "Trop d'amour"). She also announced that they would get married "within four weeks. I wish it could be sooner," she added demurely, "but we have to wait...
...great-uncle: "I should far rather make a slip with you than be on the right side even with the whole Academy-and [Anatole] France would, too. Indeed, it would be delightful to make a slip with you." His passion for the Creole never went beyond an "amour...