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...more or less typical working day this summer, Harness-Racing Driver Hervé Filion finished five races at New Jersey's Freehold Raceway and flew by chartered plane to New York's Yonkers Raceway for four more starts. Then, still wearing his red, white and blue silks, he boarded a helicopter waiting on the track's infield, shuttled to the Teterboro, N.J., airport, transferred to a chartered jet, flew to the Toronto Island Airport, took a speedboat to the mainland, jumped into a police car and arrived at Greenwood Raceway just in time to take another turn...
...brought Filion close to his avowed goal of 600 victories for 1972. It had also ensured that his winnings for the year would top $800,000, dwarfing the income of most of the world's top professional sportsmen. Eight hundred thousand dollars for a harness-racing driver? Hervé has an explanation: "A man who drives another's horse gets 5% of the horses winnings. A man who drives and trains another's horse gets 10% The man who drives, trains and owns a horse gets 100%." Conclusion: 'The key to this business is ownership." Herv...
...unlikely looking horse. "He has the eyes of a hawk," says Owner Benjamin Schaffer, "and he never forgets anything about one of his or someone else's horse." Beyond that, Filion is a crafty reinsman who among other things, excels at a tactic that might be called the Hervé Hop. Rather than throw his horse off balance by using the reins to turn his head, Filion steers through heavy traffic by hopping his sulky two feet sideways with a strong jerk of his hips and legs...
...morning Sir Edward's wife intercepts a telegram from his mistress. From that instant, the farce ascends into a blackened comedy of Eros. The More family is dissolved; Sir Edward and his new lady become a ménage à trois when they are joined by her lover, Hervé (Jean-Claude Drouot), who is posing as a homosexual. Together the two take More for all he has-including his senses. When an automobile accident robs Sir Edward of his sight, he becomes pathetically dependent on Margot. Trapped in a Mediterranean villa, he is blindly unaware that the deception...
Banks, art galleries, hotels, couturiers, fur and perfume concerns all shared in the gift. "When TIME and LIFE moved to our famous quarter of Paris," said Gallery Owner Hervé Odermatt in his presentation, "we here today were proud to become your neighbors. We come here tonight as friends to tell you that we share your mourning and your grief...