Word: hayworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italian Communists sent a 5,000,000-lire Alfa Romeo sports roadster, the kind that Prince Aly Khan gave to Rita Hayworth. The French Reds sent a chromium-plated racing bicycle. From the Communist Party in Hungary came a red plastic telephone which, instead of sounding a bell, plays the Internationale. And from a well-wisher in North America (Moscow did not name him) came the headdress of an Indian chief, with a salutation hailing Stalin as "the greatest of warriors, honorary chief of all Indian tribes...
...games were such things as Atomic Energy Kits (complete with radioactive screen and uranium ore), Fotokits (with negatives of George Washington, Roy Rogers, Stan Musical, and Rita Hayworth), ping-pong firing Sub-machine Guns ("harmless to bulbs and bric-a-brac"), and a Milton Berle puppet kit ("containing also an actual television script.") There was also a miniature candy-vending machine (subway-type) which required pennies to operate...
...Khan proudly announced that his daughter-in-law of four months, the Princess Margarita (more familiarly known to millions as Rita Hayworth) would have a baby "some time between the first of November and January...
...richest horse race, the Prix de l'Arc-de-Triomphe. Despite devaluation, the mile-and-a-half event for three-year-olds and up paid the winners a whacking $122,857. At post time, a few infield sentimentalists dredged up their last sous to get aboard Rita Hayworth's filly Double Rose. Amour Drake and Val Drake, wearing the funereal black silks of Paris' most dramatic relict, the dashing young widow of Theatrical Magnate Leon Volterra, were the heavy favorites, but form players plumped for Textile Millionaire Marcel Boussac's triple entry of Djeddah, Coronation...
...then, Djeddah had already faded but Coronation charged on to win by four lengths over Double Rose, paying 4-1 francs for 1. Said one dejected infielder as the numbers went up: "Encore une pour le trust [One more for the trust]." The sentimentalists did better: Love Goddess Hayworth's filly paid a handsome...