Word: prix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inner room opened, and looking solemnly down on the surging crowd stood Pierre Mac Orlan, painter, novelist, .and youngest (67) member of the academy, who, by tradition, must announce the winner. Slowly Mac Orlan came down the steps, pushed his way to the microphone. Said he: "The Prix Goncourt for 1950 goes to Paul Colin for his novel Les jeux sauvages...
Three Martinis. Something similar, though on a smaller scale, was happening simultaneously to a score of other French authors. The Prix Femina had gone to Serge Groussard for his La femme sans passé, a grim story of a murderess' flight on a river barge; the Prix Théophraste Renaudot to Pierre Molaine (in real life Major Léopold Faure, tank officer in the French army) for his Les orgues de I'enfer, a story about a resistance fighter hiding from the Gestapo in an insane asylum. The fourth big prize, the Prix Interalli...
...three Martinis, and awarded the international prize of the French Book Club to Robert Penn Warren for the French translation of All the King's Men. The same group of men then got up, walked across the street to the Café des Deux Magots, and awarded the Prix des Deux Magots, sponsored by the owners of the café, to Jean Masares for his Comme le pélican du-désert. Over on the Right Bank that same afternoon the editors of the newspaper Parisien Libéré were awarding its Prix...
Auto road-racing is an old fever with Europeans. Americans have found it less contagious, but since the war a lot of them have been getting the bug. Last week some 125,000 people piled into Watkins Glen, N.Y. to see the Third U.S. Grand Prix-and the first race ever sponsored in the U.S. by the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile. They took home memories of flashing, underslung, overpowered sport cars roaring down the straightaways at 130 m.p.h. They also took home memories of death...
...racing sons of Barren Collier, onetime Manhattan advertising executive. The second: Miles Collier, winner of last year's Grand Prix...