Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week 100,000 jammed grandstands, pavilions and infield to watch Europe's richest horse race, the Prix de l'Arc-de-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...
...round table, in one corner a twelve-inch statue of the Holy Virgin, in another an assortment of canes and crutches. This was the audience room where miracle-seekers met one of the Bélanger children-either André, 12, Réal, 10, Jeanne d'Arc, 9, or Robert...
...Modern Museum of Art, this fall's program consists of a short survey of the film in America, beginning with "The Great Train Robbery" and running through "All Quiet on the Western Front." In the spring, classical foreign pictures from France and Germany, including "The Passion of Jean of Arc" and numerous German propaganda films, will be presented for the benefit of club members...
Last week, in the arc-lighted ballroom of London's Claridge's Hotel, before a tough audience of some 200 newshawks and cameramen, the trim, grey-suited American told Britons some harsh truths - with a chaser of enthusiasm and hope...
...invented by Am-Ben's President Charles L. Bennett, is a series of five mirrors mounted on rubber cushions in a metal frame, which can be attached to the molding atop the windshield. With a mirror surface of 70 square inches and a 180° arc of vision, a driver can see cars behind to the right & left as well as straight back. Bennett said he had already booked orders for 131,000 mirrors. Retail price...