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...Highest price ever paid lor a thoroughbred is $300,000. Last week Martin Benson, London bookmaker, paid that amount for undefeated Xearco, an Italian horse who won the Grand Prix at Paris last fortnight, his 14th victory in a row. Only other $300,000 purchase price was for Call Boy, 1927 Epsom Derby winner...
...great Admiral Lord Beatty and grandson of Chicago's Marshall Field. Owner Beatty, who received $46,140 first-place money, was as surprised as the rest of the world. Bois Roussel, whom he had bought for $40,000 two months ago, had won only one previous race, the Prix Juigné at Longchamp last spring...
Goal of each candidate was the Grand Prix International Eugène Ysaÿe, with a check from Queen Elisabeth for 50.000 Belgian francs ($1,695). Second prize: 25,000 francs, presented by the Belgian Minister of Education; ten smaller prizes ranging from 20,000 to 4,000 francs, presented by the Eugene Ysaÿe Fund. Judges of the contest, named by Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Musical Foundation, included eight world-famous pianists...
...supposed to be ten members at the luncheon, but the venerable revolutionary writer, Lucien Descaves, refuses to attend meetings with Royalist Leon Daudet, always mails in his vote. After lunch, the Academy's youngest member announces the prizewinner to waiting newspapermen. Within an hour red bands marked Prix Goncourt have been wrapped around copies of the winning book in Paris bookstores, because the Goncourt Prize, though it involves a small cash award, sells more books than any other literary prize in France, usually makes its winner the year's bestseller...
...Prix de Rome is the choicest plum for U. S. art students who are under 30 and unmarried. It gives them two years at the American Academy in Rome, from $1,400 to $1,500 a year, studio and materials, freedom to travel. To win it, Architect Iversen got through preliminaries that eliminated 74 entrants, then worked for a month on a set problem in competition with eight other finalists. The problem : to design an open-air theatre for a city of 500,000, in an amusement park on the westerly edge of a hypothetical lake, with the stage mounted...