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Mention Sunset Strip to anybody over 30, and he will recall the twelve-block stretch between Beverly Hills and Hollywood as the playground of the stars, the place where the Gables and Grables, the Harlows and Hayworths came in their long black limousines and super-convertibles to gambol at Giro's, Mocambo and the Trocadero...
Over the Hill? Anquetil can afford to be rude. He is the only cyclist ever to win all three of Europe's top marathon races-the Tour de France, the Giro d'ltalia and the Vuelta a España. He once set a world record by covering 46,159 km. (about 29 miles) in one hour and he has won the Grand Prix des Nations, a kind of World Series of bike racing, seven times. The sport pays him $150,000 a year, and he lives in champagne luxury-beautiful blonde wife, country house near Rouen, Mercedes...
...credits, she went back to Boston. But Ceezee was not to be completely without an audience. On a trip to Mexico in 1945, she met Diego Rivera, who immediately wanted to paint her-in the nude. Ceezee didn't wince, and when the painting was later hung in Giro's Bar in the Hotel Reforma, she didn't think it was anything to get excited about...
Most racers would have taken time off to recuperate. Not Van Looy. Fortnight ago, the Emperor and his red guard pedaled out of Milan om the start of one of bike racing's toughest and richest events: the $72,000 Giro d'Italia, a 21-day marathon that winds 2,608 miles around the Italian peninsula and traverses 6000-ft.-high mountain passes in a brutal test of stamina as well as speed. Last week, with seven legs completed and 14 to go, Van Looy suffered from stomach and leg cramps. But he was within striking distance...
...Italian composer Giro Pinsuti experimented with the theme in his Mer-cante di Venezia in 1873. After that there was Deffès' Jessica (1898), Foerster's Jessika (1905), Alpaerts' Shylock (1913), and Hahn's Le Marchand de Venise (1935). The various operatic treatments of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice have one quality in common: they have all but disappeared from the stage. Last week yet another Merchant had arrived-with a good chance of beating the old jinx. The composer: Italy's Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco...