Word: auteuil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jammed into the Colombes Stadium, outside the city, to watch Lille and the Paris Racing Club play to a 3 to 3 tie. "To hell with politics!" shouted French Dramatist Jean de Beer, one of the watchers. "This is the kind of thing we live for." Crowds at the Auteuil race track were not so elegant as before the war (definitely fewer grey toppers), but just as large...
Sunday, Feb.11 was a chill day of intermittent rain. In the dripping churchyard after service, Dean Beekman told his organist: "You never played hymns better." Whipp thanked him, and cheerfully set off to lunch with friends at Auteuil...
...lunch was pleasant and friendly. Larry Whipp glowed with the news that his passport was ready for a holiday trip to the U.S. At 4 p.m. the organist put his grey soft hat on his balding head, picked up his neatly rolled umbrella and walked out into Auteuil's gloomy Sunday twilight. No one has seen hide nor hair of him since...
...women of other cities that you may know of." He enlarged upon the sidewalk cafes ("almost everyone knows a dozen . . . where one can eat well, often at surprisingly reasonable prices") and the Ritz and Claridge's ("favorite places just now . . . for the fashionable world"). And the races at Auteuil-75,000 people were there for "the 'Grand Steeple-Chase du Printemps,'* with a purse of 600,000 francs. ... It turned out to be a perfect day. . . . Fine enough for the Parisienne to wear her best...
...Belmont race track went the alltime greatest crowds. the carriage trade, lush with furs and brilliant with jewels; fashion models, dressed carefully to provoke envy in the thousands who came in merely their best clothes (see p. 63). It was all very much like the race meet at Auteuil, in the suburbs of Paris, in the spring of 1940, when Parisian couturiers worried about the proper cut and color for gas-mask containers. Shut Out whipped Alsab in the famed Belmont Stakes, and Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews, Commandant of the entire Eastern Sea Frontier, came graciously to the microphone...