Word: auteuil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first big chance in the Prix des Landes at Enghien, Belgium last spring. He won. All season long, Fanfaron IV ran scared. In eight races he finished first four times, second twice. He earned 4,000,000 francs. Last week in the Prix Georges Brinquant at Auteuil, Fanfaron won once more and put another 2,000-000 francs in his owner's pocket...
...held his job at the Dominican Republic's Paris embassy long enough to fray many a pair of striped pants, and the job has been good to him. In a typical workday (lately as minister counselor), he might play polo at Deauville, or catch the races at Auteuil. Evenings, unless he happened to be spreading joy in Cannes or Monte Carlo, he usually liked to start early at Maxim...
Sometimes it was wonderful. There was Paris after World War I, when "everyone" came to the Eisenhowers' apartment on the Rue d'Auteuil to have a drink, sing old songs, laugh, and refight the war, and when the nearby Seine bridge was known as "Pont Mamie." But there was also Panama in 1922. Mamie had just lost her three-year-old son, "Little Icky," and was expecting her second. She found herself living amid the damp, stifling tropical heat in an ancient and stilt-supported house. There were bats in the rafters, and tarantulas crept out of cracks...
...been a successful hostess in Paris by acting, in many ways, just about as she did in the late 19203, when the Eisenhower apartment on the Rue d'Auteuil-occupied while Ike served with the American Battle Monuments Commission -was known as "Club Eisenhower" to their friends, and nearby Mirabeau Bridge as "Pont Mamie...
President and Mme. Vincent Auriol cast their ballots in downtown Paris amid the pop of photographers' flashbulbs, then hustled off to the Auteuil horse races. Grey-suited De Gaulle, as dour as usual, voted in a schoolhouse in his home village of Colombey-les-deux-Eglises. Premier Henri Queuille, symbol of the Third Force, voted before TV and newsreel cameras in his constituency in central France, then flew back to Paris to watch the count...