Word: benz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German Autobuilder Karl Benz's tiny plant one day in 1902 came Austria-Hungary's wealthy Consul General Emile Jellinek. He promised to order 30 of Benz's famous racers to enter in the Nice road race "if you'll name them for my daughter Mercedes." Consul Jellinek got his cars (they won the first 30 places in the race) and his daughter Mercedes' name became a world-famous symbol of automotive quality and speed...
...Mercedes, with its familiar emblem, a trylon star, was all but eclipsed during World War II, when the makers, Daimler-Benz A.G., having turned to producing engines for Hitler's Messerschmitt-109 and Tiger Tank, had their main Stuttgart plant almost destroyed by allied bombs. But since last year, when Mercedes' powerful new 300 SL (for Super Light) grabbed off top honors at one road race after another, the star has been shining brighter than ever. It is being polished by other stars such as Bing Crosby, Gary Cooper and Errol Flynn, who have been trooping to Germany...
...wrists in exile-first on Capri, finally in a 30-room villa staffed by eight servants in the Alban Hills outside Rome. Bereft of palaces, they pursued pleasures: days at the races, nights at the opera, wee hours at Rome's tame little nightclubs. Each had a Mercedes-Benz, green for him, cherry red for her. Sometimes they appeared separately, 19-year-old Narriman with a coterie of envious, twittering, teen-age girls, Farouk with a pretty French blonde or Italian brunette...
...seven months of it, Narriman looked pale, tired-and tired of it all. Two weeks ago mother-in-law Mme. Assila Sadek flew in from Cairo and flew at the ex-King. Result: Narriman, impassive behind dark glasses, drove to Rome's Ciampino Airport in her red Mercedes-Benz, accompanied by her triumphant mother, also wearing dark glasses. After tearful partings with friends, Narriman the child bride flew off to Switzerland with her mother and her pet poodle, Jou-Jou, but not her son, King Fuad II, heir to the throne. In Geneva she announced that she would return...
...Stakes," the National Argentine Sports Car Race, in 1951. He often drives for famed U.S. Sports-Car builder Briggs Cunningham,* and in last November's Pan-American race he became the first U.S. driver since the days of Barney Oldfield to drive a car (Mercedes) sponsored by Daimler-Benz...