Word: debonairly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confession story, plucked from Romain Gary's novel by protean Writer-Director Peter Ustinov (who also spills out of a minor role as an addled Bavarian prince), describes how a scrumptious Parisian laundress rises to greatness as the wife of David Niven, one of England's most debonair lords. En route to her destiny. Sophia is delayed briefly in a bordello, which has chambers designed for train buffs or Arabian Knights. There she meets Paul Newman, who performs behind a large mustache, possibly to conceal the fact that he is hopelessly miscast as a bomb-toting French anarchist...
...bowler, boater and deerstalker, tweeds, pinstripes, tails. Everything but the old elephant gun. He claims that he needs all those togs for professional use, but offstage he is seldom seen wearing the wrong suit or the same one twice. In real life he is as wildly gallant and exaggeratedly debonair as any character he impersonates...
Sentimental Second. He had that lesson in mind when the horses paraded to the post for the start of the Preakness at Pimlico last week. Lucky Debonair naturally was the favorite at 8-5-despite a bruised ankle that almost caused Trainer Frank Catrone to scratch him from the race. Tom Rolfe, the smallest horse in the field (at 15.2 hands and less than 1,000 lbs.), was the sentimental second choice, mostly because three of his four 1965 victories had come on Maryland's deep, sandy tracks. His breeding probably had something to do with it too. Sired...
After the first five furlongs of the 1 3/10-mi. Preakness, Tom Rolfe was nine lengths back. Isador Bieber's Flag Raiser (odds: 5-1) was straining for the lead, with Lucky Debonair and a longshot named Swift Ruler (42-1). Lucky Debonair's jockey, Willie Shoemaker, knew he was in trouble: "I was getting into him pretty good, but he wasn't giving me anything." Rounding the turn for home. Flag Raiser was in front-but there was Tom Rolfe ranging up to take the lead...
Purposeful Maneuver. Along the rail. Ogden Phipps's Dapper Dan, another son of Ribot and runner-up to Lucky Debonair in the Derby, began to make his move. Jockey Turcotte remembered. Whipping righthanded, he drove Tom Rolfe straight toward the rail as if he intended to run right into Dapper Dan. At the last second before a collision. Turcotte turned his colt away. The maneuver served its purpose: for the barest instant. Dapper Dan flinched and broke stride-and in that instant Tom Rolfe won the race. Milo Valenzuela, who rode Dapper Dan, claimed foul. The stewards did their...