Word: pippins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SHORT REIGN OF PIPPIN IV (188 pp.)-John Steinbeck-Viking...
...long, long way from wrathful Okies and Tortilla Flat. After Author Steinbeck and the Assembly make their momentous decision, there are of course almost as many pretenders in France as there ever were premiers, but the royal prize goes to a man who does not seek it-M. Pippin Arnulf Héristal, a distant collateral relation of Charlemagne...
Before destiny sideswipes him, the lean, fiftyish Pippin is content to live on his unearned income and enjoy a nightly orgy of stargazing from the roof of his Parisian town house. More concierge than wife, Mme. Héristal rations out new telescopes with a parsimonious hand. Daughter Clotilde, 20, is addicted to Hollywood horse operas and has already Saganalyzed her life in a bestseller written at 15, Adieu...
...Pippin must have felt that she had earned a life of leisure at home in New Jersey. When she was retired in 1932, the Moores imported a great Scottish stallion, Ophelius, as a stud. Pippin would have nothing to do with the old horse. (Later breeding with an American stud produced one foal, but it was never shown.) So Pippin lived out her years on the wooded acres of Seaton Hackney Farm-alert, lovely, always a pleasure to watch working in harness. Last week, at 36 (the equivalent of more than 100 years in a human), she developed a serious...
...will be interesting to note whether there will ever be a horse to excel her," said the show judge who gave Pippin the first of her 203 blue ribbons. Until the day Seaton Pippin was chloroformed last week, there never...