Word: arcadia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Maurice Bedel, 69, French satiric novelist (Jerome: Sixty Degrees North Latitude, The New Arcadia], winner (in 1927) of the Goncourt Prize, chronicler in his prewar novels of the evils of Fascism and Naziism; of uremia; in Chatellerault, France...
...Arcadia. Calif., the King Ranch's Rejected, dead last at the three-quarter-mile mark, came on with a rush to win the mile-and-a-quarter $143,000 Santa Anita Handicap by a length plus...
...Arcadia, Calif., Jockey Willie Shoemaker, 22, set a record that may last as long as Babe Ruth's 60 home runs. On the last day of the season, Willie booted home his 485th winner (in 255 days of riding), beating the 1952 record of Tony De Spirito by 95 winning rides...
...find some other flair? After a TIME story mentioning the caloric content of modern bread, Reader R. C. Dewey of Arcadia, Calif...
...California, has booted home 1,571 winners, won more than $5,000,000 in purses. At a jockey's standard 10%, he can well afford his Cadillac, his de luxe trailer, where his wife does the housekeeping when Willie is on the road, and his small apartment in Arcadia. Indeed, he owns the apartment house...