Word: prix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stallions (like Tourbillon) with proven brood mares (like Astronomie). He has also tried some daring experiments in inbreeding. One was to mate a full brother and sister. The result was Coronation, one of the meanest-tempered horses ever to kick a groom, but winner of last year's Prix de l'Arc-de-Triomphe...
President Vincent Auriol, who had to find a man who would attempt to form a new cabinet, was for the moment more interested in picking a winner for the Grand Prix, France's most fashionable horse race. On Sunday morning he interviewed a dozen political leaders, then hurried to the Longchamp race track with the plaintive explanation: "Ever since I took office I have been prevented from attending the race. This time I'm going to see my favorite Vieux Memoir run. I have bet some money on Vieux Manoir...
...everybody has to die at the end." He would have plenty of time to find one and work on it. He has resigned his post as pianist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to spend next season in Italy as a winner of the American Academy in Rome's Prix de Rome...
...from modest in his first adult attempts at composing. At 21, he borrowed 1,200 francs from a friend to have a Berlioz-written Mass performed in Paris' Church of St.-Roch. After his first try for the Prix de Rome (he later won it), his father cut off his allowance in an attempt to force him back to medicine. Berlioz continued to compose, living sometimes only on raisins, salt and bread earned by singing in a Parisian theater, scribbling musical criticisms and giving guitar lessons...
Competing for the 300,000-peso ($34,000) top prizes were 132 two-man teams including such hot drivers as Indianapolis Speedway veteran Johnny Mantz, Italy's Piero Taruffi, winner of the 1948 Grand Prix de Berne auto race, and President Miguel Aleman's chauffeur, whose handsome new Cadillac, fresh from the palace garage, bore the name Coche México. There was a Los Angeles war veteran driving a 13-year-old Cord, a red-haired torch singer from Mexico City, a Texas grandmother sponsored by a brassiere manufacturer, and a 70-year-old Arizona widow with...