Word: ranier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opening night at the new Parisian-revue Voila glittered with bright stars of the international carriage trade. Trailing white satin, diamonds and lanky Hollywood Cowboy Gary Cooper, French Cinemactress Gisele Pascal showed up without her steady escort, Monaco's Prince Ranier III. Tubby ex-King Farouk shied at photographers ("Please, no pictures. I'm here incognito!"). Oldtime Singer Maurice Chevalier ogled the crowd, happily concluded, "Everybody, but everybody is here tonight...
...Carlo itself in his Sunbeam-Talbot, spun over his prescribed route through Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, and up & over the Maritime Alps of France. Crossing the finish line without a single penalty, Fitch was one of the prime favorites for the million-franc prize money and the Prince Ranier III of Monaco Cup. But in the next test-a series of starts, stops and reverses over a 250-meter course-the Sunbeam-Talbot came a cropper. "There was a small knock in the motor," said Fitch ruefully. "We lost two seconds." By that slim margin, Fitch lost his chance...