Word: prix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fans lining the track at Doncaster, England, for last week's St. Leger (rhymes with quaint ledger). My Love was the 7-to-4 favorite; the Aga Khan's mahogany three-year-old had already won the Epsom Derby and the French Grand Prix...
Died. Georges Bernanos, 60, royalist French novelist who blamed his country's ills on it & bourgeoisie; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Paris. An ardent Roman Catholic, Bernanos in 1936 won the French Academy's Grand Prix with Diary of a Country Priest...
...grey eyes. French horseplayers call him "the Crocodile" ("he comes from behind and eats them up"). He never looked more carnivorous than he did last week at Longchamps, as he trailed the leaders around the turn, and then crocodiled ahead to win France's racing classic-the Grand Prix de Paris-by a length and a half...
With princely fervor, Igor ordered high-powered cars, formed a racing club, trained all winter. The bill came to 60 million francs (about $200,000). Last week he lined up for Monte Carlo's International Grand Prix, first since...
...Grand Prix is no Sunday drive. The tortuous 198-mile course zigzags through narrow city streets, swoops uphill & down. In the 1937 race, a Frenchman drove over a cliff into the sea, and one Italian ended Up with his radiator embedded in the ticket office of Monte Carlo's railroad station. Last week, after 50 laps (halfway), eleven of the 19 cars in the race had quit. But Igor, gripping the wheel of his No. 36, a crimson Ferrari, was still in the running. Then it happened...