Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race, world's longest (1,908 miles) and most punishing, has more than earned its reputation as a mankiller: in its first four years, it took the lives of 17 drivers and spectators. Before this year's opening gun was fired, two Argentine competitors were killed in pre-race tests. Before the contestants roared across the flat homestretch to Juarez last week, so many cars had missed turns, somersaulted off the road and plowed through packs of spectators, that more than a score were injured and seven more drivers were dead. But by the time they wound...
...Hornblower period; in Porter's Noon Wine, the madness and death of a farmhand and the suicide of a farmer in horse-and-buggy Texas; in Gogol's The Overcoat, the acquisition and loss of an overcoat by a clerk somewhere in pre-revolutionary Russia; in Wescott's The Pilgrim Hawk, the liberation and recovery of a hunting falcon in the garden of an expatriate lady somewhere in France; and in Faulkner's The Bear, the pursuit of an unusually large bear in the boondocks of post-bellum Mississippi...
...these arguments against Manhattan's pre-eminence as an art center mean little. The world's most admired contemporary artists are all old and mostly French. Before World War I, the geniuses of the "School of Paris"-Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Dufy, Rouault-mainly admired each other. Paris liked them...
Married. Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odium, 62, onetime (1934-40) president of Manhattan's Bonwit Teller (women's fashions); and Angel Kouyoumdjisky, sixtyish, pre-World War II Bulgarian banker; she for the third time (her first: Floyd Odium, president of Atlas Corp.), he for the second; in Manhattan...
Yerby shuns both literary parties and Negro causes. He has been accused by some writers in the Negro press of racial disloyalty. But others, such as Novelist Ralph (The Invisible Man) Ellison, count it a score for Negroes that Yerby has won pre-eminence in a general field without regard to his race...