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Still on the mend after a heart attack that laid him low in Cairo last February, the Ago Khan, 77, looking surprisingly chipper, enjoyed a sunny outing at Paris' Longchamp race track with his handsome French-born wife, the Begum...
...misty setting, inspired by Degas and churned out commercially by one Fried Pal, among others; 3) The Paris Street, in cool colors with sharp edges, originated by Utrillo, but perpetuated by a more sober and less talented host of hacks; 4) the dashing watercolor of a horse race at Longchamp or a Riviera regatta, which Raoul Dufy invented and his younger brother Jean imitates in quantity...
...Auriol, who had to find a man who would attempt to form a new cabinet, was for the moment more interested in picking a winner for the Grand Prix, France's most fashionable horse race. On Sunday morning he interviewed a dozen political leaders, then hurried to the Longchamp race track with the plaintive explanation: "Ever since I took office I have been prevented from attending the race. This time I'm going to see my favorite Vieux Memoir run. I have bet some money on Vieux Manoir...
...Paris' Longchamp track, the horses run clockwise, the clotheshorses from the maisons de haute couture run the gauntlet of admiring eyes, and bettors can be heard exchanging tips on both in Urdu, Sudanese, Hindustani or Cambodian. But from under the toppers and turbans in the grandstand comes only an occasional listless Allez! or Vite!; it is across the turf on the grassy reaches of Longchamp's infield that the passion of Parisian racing is concentrated...
...Better than Churchill." Everywhere Zezette and Philip went, Parisians cried: "Vive la Princesse!" During the races at Longchamp, people stood with their backs to the track so as not to miss a glimpse of the royal couple. Along the boulevards the crowds were solid: young men with girls on their shoulders, midinettes who buzzed about Elizabeth's elegantly homely clothes, and elderly gentlemen with Legion of Honor rosettes in their frayed buttonholes, silver-topped canes swinging gently in their gloved hands. People broke police barriers, crying "Serrez-moi la main!" (Let me shake your hand). One gouty old woman...