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...better fitted. Former British Champion Mike Hawthorn was at the wheel of a big (20 cc. more displacement than the Ferrari), D-type Jaguar fitted out with husky disc brakes, a type relatively unaffected by heat. Current British Champ Stirling Moss was driving a light (2.9-liter), cat-quick Aston Martin, also with disc brakes. Both British teams were superbly organized in the pits. The Aston crew came complete with a practical physicist. Working with his slide rule, so the impressed pitmen said, the visiting scientist could calculate within two laps just when a tire would blow...
...John Fitch, in the most powerful car in the race, a 5.1-liter Chevrolet Corvette (four other Corvettes started out but two failed to last). But the blue-and-white American entry was quickly passed by Hawthorn in his grey D-Jag. Behind him was Moss in his Aston Martin. Fangio, the balding ex-bus driver who was the pampered protege of Argentina's deposed Dictator Juan Peron, ran an easy third...
...Sudden Pain. But the city's Medical Examiner Melville Aston was not so curious as Brunt: he had already agreed to release the body, without an autopsy, thus ending his interest in the case. His lack of interest was due to the fact that the Silvers' family physician had assured him that the girl had suffered from an allergy, and he would get a letter from the allergist setting this forth. To the allergist who had been treating her, the family physician explained that Doris had been "suddenly taken with an acute pain in the chest and within...
When Brunt learned this, he called the allergist and bluntly asked: Did he realize that he would, in fact, be giving a death certificate for the girl? The allergist was shocked, said he intended to do no such thing. Then Examiner Aston hastily changed his mind about releasing the body. As he scheduled an investigation into the death, the Bulletin broke the story on Page...
...Sebring's zigzag course had already taken a breakdown toll of cars-among them two British Aston-Martins and a Cadillac-Allard-and soon flagged down more. Fangio's Lancia went out with what the Lancia pits called ignition trouble (the word went round that it had really suffered a broken gearbox or a snapped rear axle). Midway, Taruffi's Lancia (No. 38) held the lead, but Ascari's Lancia was out with clutch trouble...