Word: prix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles), Author Gary understands this well, has written his story in the idiom of documentary journalism. It is completely successful-one of the best narratives to be published in a long time. The Roots of Heaven has won one of France's highest literary awards-the Prix Goncourt -doubtless for the very French way in which it brings politics into the jungle and the jungle into politics...
...troubled bubbling of the French literary cauldron, no one supplies more fire, or more newt's eyes, than twelve eccentric old ladies who meet every so often to nibble lunch, bite backs and, once every year, pass out one of France's top literary awards, the Prix Femina. Although the Femina's cash value is only 5,000 francs ($12), the prize has enough prestige to guarantee a 100,000-copy sale to the novelist who lands it. To literary onlookers, the Femina's entertainment value is even greater; although the prize was created...
Against Eroticism. To the Blue opposition the Duchesse rallied an impressive phalanx, including the Comtesse de Pange and onetime Actress Judith Cladel, 86. But the Simone forces seemed stronger; among others, the Red leader had lined up antediluvian Prix Fighter Saint-René Taillandier, Novelist Jeanne Galzy and Germaine Beaumont, a jury sitter of indeterminate vintage ("Age is fiction"). The week before the balloting, three lined-up Simone voters came down with the grippe. In silence, at the deciding luncheon, the embattled ladies spooned their bombe glacée. When the voting began, the committee was deadlocked, but under pressure...
...Wheeling his British-built Vanwall into the lead on the second lap of the triangular course at Pescara, Italy, Britain's Stirling Moss was never headed as he set a record for the Grand Prix of Pescara (2 hrs. 59 min. 22.7 sec.) and moved into second place in the race for the world championship. Second at Pescara: Juan Fangio, who already has won enough Grand Prix races for the championship...
...first Indianapolis-style competition, with an average speed of 160.057 m.p.h. Indianapolis Veterans Troy Ruttman and Johnny Parsons finished second and third. The only non-Indianapolis-type cars to compete were British Jaguars, and three of them, entered by the same Scots team that swept the 24-hour Grand Prix at Le Mans, France, came in behind Parsons. So fast was the new Italian track that even the slowest car to finish shattered Sam Hanks's Indianapolis record of 135.601 m.p.h...