Word: carlos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen Mary Stakes, was kicked in the midriff and knocked flat by his own favorite filly, Martine, under the eyes of Queen Elizabeth, later saw Martine finish out of the money. Hiding behind dark glasses and displaying her customary distaste for photographers, Greta Garbo arrived in Monte Carlo, was photographed strolling the streets just before she boarded Greek Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis' yacht, which was bound for Saudi Arabia, with stops along the way at Capri and Venice...
Throughout the world, threadbare gamblers with avid eyes have dreamed of becoming "the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo." But the man who came nearest to breaking the bank at Monte Carlo last month was no true gambler at all; he was the man who owned...
...That Failed. In Monte Carlo, however, the gambling urge is strong even in successful bankers, and Liambey was anxious to make himself even richer. Last year he threw about half of his bank's resources into a commercial TV station near the French border on the theory that it would reap a fortune from French advertisers unable to hawk their products on the noncommercial, state-owned French TV. But the station turned out to have an embarrassing connection with the French government, which vetoed the advertising contracts...
...Elinor confided to Clayton that a friend of his had the gall to kiss her, she was heartbroken to hear her husband chuckle. "Did he? Good old Brookie!" Clayton was ardent only for a male heir. When Elinor presented him with a second daughter, he took off for Monte Carlo in a huff and dropped ?10,000 at cards and roulette. Elinor put her seething romantic frustrations into bestsellers such as The Reflections of Ambrosine, The Vicissitudes of Evangeline (U.S. title: Red Hair...
...uninterrupted even by the Franco-Prussian War, when, as an army chef, he learned how to cook a horse (scald the meat and cool before cooking, to kill the bitter taste). After the war he perfected his style and fatefully met Hotelman Cesar Ritz. At Ritz-managed hotels (Monte Carlo's Grand, London's Savoy and Carlton, Paris' Ritz), Escoffier cooked his way to fame...