Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the uncowed look of a retired town marshal sniffing rustlers in the sagebrush, horse racing's grand old man, Trainer James ("Sunny Jim") Fitzsimmons, this week celebrates his 84th birthday, shows no signs of slowing to a sedate canter. Up at 4:45 a.m. for his day at the track, Mr. Fitz still keeps two dozen thoroughbreds under his watchful eye, including Stakes Winner ($764,204 so far) Bold Ruler. At night, naturally. Fitz stays abreast of horseflesh problems the TV way: watching westerns...
Last week crowds thronged to hear the student orchestra of Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music play its first concert in the fair's Grand Auditorium, responded with such applause that Conductor Jean Morel had to come back and lead two encores from Stravinsky's Firebird. And the main fairgrounds competition the Juilliard musicians had to buck came from another U.S. group: Jerome Robbins' "Ballets: U.S.A." troupe, which at the same hour was packing the U.S. Pavilion Theater by presenting such gustily American dance pieces as The Concert and New York Export: Opus Jazz...
Other attractions on the U.S. Performing Arts program: the New York City Center Light Opera Company's Carousel and Wonderful Town (wrote Ghent's Het Volk: "An absolute revelation!"), and the New York City Opera's Susannah by Carlisle Floyd. Crowds also jammed the Grand Auditorium to hear Violinist Isaac Stern play three times with the Philadelphia Orchestra, turned out again when the Philadelphians and Pianist Van Cliburn played the piece that catapulted him to fame-Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto...
...roaring, madcap world of Grand Prix auto racing, the power axis is shifting. For years, daring, lead-footed Italians bestrode the field until fiery death picked them off one by one, from Ascari to Musso. Spain's dashing Alfonso de Portago was killed in 1957, and Argentina's five-time world champion, aging (47) Juan Manuel Fangio, announced this summer that he is retiring. Today, dominance in racing belongs to the British, especially to flaxen-haired, temperamental Mike Hawthorn, 29, and balding, easygoing Stirling Moss, 28. The two are battling head-to-head for the world driving championship...
...Street. With the Casals Festival scheduled as a yearly event in Puerto Rico, it seems unlikely that the master will ever again make music on such a grand scale in Prades. He no longer has a residence there, nor is he entirely welcome in the hamlet he made famous. This year his landlord jacked up the rent of the cottage he always occupied. And the cellist himself was a little difficult. "If M. Casals met God in the street," remarked a town official, "there is some doubt as to who would take precedence." Offered an apartment in nearby Molitg...