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...Panache was a floor walker. Like his crony, The Navet, he was generally detested (all the conservatives in The Last Time I Saw Paris are detestable). "To keep M. Panache in a perpetual hell of suspicion and rage," the chestnut vendor kept whispering to him that the proprietor of the Hotel du Caveau "rented Panache's room now and then for twenty-minute periods to streetwalkers who did not draw the color line." The street was delighted when he contracted the barber's itch. >M. de Malancourt, a wealthy gentleman, had an "astonished camera artist take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gamins & Spinach | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

Before TIME'S haw-haw . . . Columnist Howard C. Hosmer of the Rochester Times-Union went to considerable lengths to explain how he had fallen for the chestnut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1942 | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...stretch run that looked like Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair, & floppy-eared chestnut pulled farther & farther in front. It was Mrs. Payne Whitney's The Rhymer, a four-year-old who-despite the fact that he was ridden by Eddie Arcaro, smartest jockey in the business-had been listed among "the field" in the pari-mutuel betting.-At the finish line The Rhymer was a head in front of Best Seller, a 58-to-1 shot. Third was Olympus, another "field horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 15 to I | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

John L. Sosman '43 of Dunster House and Chestnut Hill was elected captain of the Varsity wrestling team yesterday afternoon. Sosman, who wrestles in the 175-pound class, is entered along with 123-pound Ray Guild in the National AAU open tourney Saturday evening in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRESTLERS ELECT SOSMAN CAPTAIN | 3/13/1942 | See Source »

...already a chestnut, told of several other Italians by their biographers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Enterprise | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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