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Wide-eyed Cinemactress Audrey Hepburn, on a grey Arab steed, bounced prettily before the cameras in Durango, Mexico. Suddenly, someone yelled "Cut." The stallion stopped, tumbled little Audrey over its head. She went off to the hospital, and doctors labored over the verdict: four cracked vertebrae, a badly sprained left foot. Bedded, she will be out of camera range for six weeks...
...traveling in Italy, Pasternak returned to Moscow without his philosophy degree and began whooping it up as a bohemian versifier. Pasternak, with his liquid, steel-grey eyes, sensuous lips and proud and pensive look, became famed as a ladies' man. He looked, recalls one acquaintance, "like an Arabian stallion...
...Wolfeian flaws of logorrhea, overintensity and repetition. But he has some of the Wolfeian virtues as well: his characters-Christian and Uncle Rolfe and the rest-come thunderously alive; he can tumultously evoke the rites of spring; he is equally sure in dealing with the frenzies of a crazed stallion or the moiling mind of an adolescent. What is needed is an editor...
...young Moro Naba is the incarnation of the sun on earth, and he rules through a court more rigid in its ritual than that of Louis XIV, the Sun King. Each week, after the nobles have abased themselves before him, the Moro Naba heads for a splendidly caparisoned stallion. But just as he is about to mount, his Chief of Eunuchs confronts him and begs him not to ride away. With the same angry gesture he uses every Friday, the Moro Naba protests, but finally yields, saying "I shall not depart...
...fact, in the last ten years he has become the dominant figure in the whole sport. Raised on his family's breeding farm in Pennsylvania, Del Miller has won a dazzling reputation as a breeder and trainer. His most spectacular success came in 1948, when he bought a stallion named Adios for $21,000. Adios earned him $1,000,000 in stud fees and sales of yearlings before he sold the horse for $500,000 to the Hanover farm in 1955. Adios' progeny hold some seven world records...