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...heady smell of horses, leather, manure and stable antiseptics has fortified many a gypsy horse owner and trainer against the stress of staying half a jump ahead of the sheriff. Often as not there is no rainbow at the end of the trail. For little Jean Charles ("Frenchy") Pinon there was-after 13 threadbare years...
With just one horse, a four-year-old chestnut filly, Frenchy Pinon built a hunch into a six-figure bank account in 1944. He won the $15,000 Hawthorne Handicap, the $25,000 Vanity Handicap, topped off the season with a $61,425 check from the Hollywood Gold Cup, last big race of the year...
...popular explanation of Leopold's hasty night ride was that Wilhelmina had become perturbed when she read an article by the French political writer René Pinon in Paris' Revue des deux mondes which suggested that Germany, about to pounce on the Dutch, had offered Belgium a piece of The Netherlands in return for Belgian neutrality; that His Majesty rushed to Her Majesty to deny the story personally, and then the royal telegram was drawn up to serve as an excuse for the sudden visit...
...gardens were reported "in an unfortunate condition." In September, 1929, "the avenues of royal pinon and taberind were dashed to the ground," and on this date in 1935, according to the CRIMSON, "many of the buildings were razed, and the greater part of the garden stock was severely injured. The storm stripped the citrus trees of their fruit and about 300 specimens were badly damaged...
...from nine to five from Monday, June 20 through Commencement Day, Thursday, June 23. It shows present conditions in the war zone, the health propaganda work of La Renaissance des Cites and especially its work in replanning destroyed towns preparatory to reconstruction. The reconstruction of the model village of Pinon, toward which the American Committee is raising a fund of $250,000, is illustrated by numerous plans and sketches. Among members of the faculty on the American Committee are President Lowell, President Emeritus Eliot, Prof. Charles T. Copeland '82, of the English Department, Prof, Sturgis Pray '95, of the School...