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France's Prix de 1'Arc de Triomphe always seems to bring out the patriot in horsemen - just possibly because of its $270,000 purse. The field of 20 thoroughbreds that paraded to the post at Longchamp last week carried the silks of six nations, but the horses' nationalities were a little confused...
French horses had won the Arc 32 out of 43 years, and most of the 60,000 fans who crowded into Longchamp last week were rooting for Sea Bird to make it 33 out of 44. Tom Rolfe was practically a long shot at 8 to 1. True, he had won the Preakness, the American Derby, five other stakes, and $518,205. But he was used to running counterclockwise, on flat dirt tracks. Like most French races, the Arc is run clockwise, and Longchamp's 1½-mile grass track is anything but flat: in the middle...
Divorced. By Joan Bennett, 55, movie siren of the 1930s (Careless Lady): Walter Wanger, 71, veteran film producer (Joan of Arc, Cleopatra), who in 1952 served 15 weeks in jail for jealously shooting her agent, Jennings Lang, in the groin; on grounds of incompatibility; after 25 years of marriage, two children; in Juarez, Mexico...
...Raymond Guest, U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, the three-year-old colt, win ner of the Preakness Stakes, led most of the way to score his ninth victory in twelve starts this year. Tom Rolfe's next stop: France, and the $150,000-added Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe...
Unfortunately for mademoiselle, her monument will be nearly as gauche as most of the ditties about her. To be erected whenever Armentières can raise the $14,000 that it will cost, it depicts her as a sort of bedroom Joan of Arc surrounded by four admiring soldiers, who are holding her aloft on a serving tray...