Word: prix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Modern Art shows (see overleaf). A U.S. Air Force officer during World War II, Levee went to Paris to study painting on the G.I. bill. First registered at the Academic Julian, he was nearly thrown out for flouting academic standards, wound up sharing the school's Grand Prix second prize with his Parisian wife. Approaching abstraction via Cezanne and the Cubists, Levee also shows the influence of his French contemporaries Pierre Soulages and the late Nicolas de Stael. but now feels his painting is becoming less French, more American, "less architectural, less constructed, more organic...
...continually critical as old Alfieri himself, Maserati's present owner, Adolfo Orsi, refuses to be satisfied, even with success. He got off to a fast start with one of last season's six-cylinder Grand Prix racers, which World Champion Juan Fangio drove to victory in the Argentine Grand Prix at Buenos Aires last month, setting a track record in the bargain. And Motorman Orsi is already tooling up a new twelve-cylinder racer...
...other hand, the trick is to floorboard the throttle and hope the car holds together. The exhilaration of acceleration more than makes up for worry about mechanical failure. For the last few years, that exhilaration has kept the nervy Briton nudging at Fangio's rear bumper in Grand Prix competition...
Talents of Two Schools. With the skill of its two other drivers, France's Jean Behra and Argentina's Carlos Menditeguy, to back up Fangio and Moss, the Maserati team will be the favorite in almost every race on the fat Grand Prix calendar ahead. They will be trying for the Cuban Grand Prix at Havana later this month. They will be at Sebring, Fla. in March...
Entremont got his first piano lesson at eight, from his mother, herself a Grand Prix pianist. At twelve, he was winning his own prizes. Now starting a 50-concert American tour, accompanied by his pretty, redheaded wife, he thinks he might like to live in the U.S. "I like the people," he says. "For the performer, the audience creates a grande ambiance...