Word: ren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insidious fascination for the oldtimers-the veterans, nominally retired, who spend most of the year telling themselves that they are through with the hot smell of lubricating oil, the screech of skidding tires, the grab of brakes fighting for control. This year is no exception: among the entrants is René Dreyfus, 49, onetime champion of France, a driver who dropped out of regular competition 15 years ago and settled down to a more prosaic profession: running Le Chanteclair, a raidtown Manhattan restaurant...
Even in his restaurant, René has never been far from the track. Drivers are forever dropping by for advice, old friends come to reminisce about the races in which he made his reputation: Le Mans, the Grand Prix of Monaco, Indianapolis, Targa Florio in Sicily, the "Million-Franc Race" at Montlhery. When Chicago Industrialist S. H. ("Wacky") Arnolt decided to enter three of his Arnolt-Bristol sports cars in this year's Grand Prix at Sebring, it was not surprising that he turned to René Dreyfus when he needed a team captain. And it was not surprising...
...three weeks, as French movie audiences cheered pictures of Mendès and booed the procession of Old Guard leaders to the presidential palace, France's ship of state had been in irons-sails thrashing, the crew in shouting confusion. Night after night, old President René Coty had climbed from his bed to confer with pouchy-eyed politicians, while ample Madame Coty padded about the palace kitchen in her silken peignoir, serving endless cups of coffee...
...Crimson lineup will remain the same as against the Cadets. Number one, Ren Hockscher, will face Co-Captain George Kesel, a varsity performer for three seasons who has a good all-around game. In what could be the closest match of the day, Crimson captain Bill Wister will oppose Paul Quins in second position...
...French women writers are as fiercely intellectual as Simone de Beauvoir or as sensationally sexy as the kiss-and-write girls. Louise de Vilmorin, 48, author of the brilliant little tragicomic gem, Madame De (TIME, Oct. 11), writes books that are always impeccably elegant, and 47-year-old Renée Massip's La Regente is a sensitive psychological study of an unhappy girl and a domineering mother. French women writers, as diverse in personality as in subject matter, range from glamorous Silvia Monfort, 30, whose Droit Chemin is about a professor who tries to command people...