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...Bridgehampton, N.Y., lawyer, Bryan Hamlen, is nationally circulating this petition, addressed to President Eisenhower. It urges the President to "use his influence and authority to correct the abuses of certain Congressional committees, notably Senator McCarthy...
Loudspeakers blared the news up & down the length of Long Island's Bridgehampton road-race course last week, calling a halt to the trial spins of other drivers. They wheeled slowly back to the pits, then gathered in gloomy little knots to discuss the accident. The Bridgehampton town board held a hurried meeting to decide whether or not to run the next day's races...
Lucky Break. Bridgehampton (pop. 1,499) was chiefly worried about danger to spectators. Road racing had got a black eye when a youngster watching from the sidewalk was killed at the Watkins Glen race last fall (Lloyd's of London jacked up the insurance rates for road-race organizers after that one). Moreover, earlier last week, road racing had taken another blow when New York's Governor Tom Dewey banned road racing from all state highways. Bridgehampton's town board decided to double the number of special policemen (increasing them to 240), let the races...
...mirrored in the postwar hot-rod craze-in which backyard mechanics sought to improve on Detroit's product-and the importation of thousands of foreign cars, such as terrierlike M.G.s, Jaguars, Porsches and Lancias (see color pages). Sports-car clubs sprang up everywhere, and raced their cars at Bridgehampton and Watkins Glen, N.Y., Elkhart Lake, Wis., Pebble Beach, Calif. and Sebring...
...Hope. Some of the best of them were in the big race for the Bridgehampton Cup. The first of road racing's big three,† it brought a field limit of 30 starters. A host of disappointed entrants were shut out because either their cars or their driving was not up to scratch, or their entries were too late. A bang-up race from start to finish, it was not finally settled until the homestretch run. Allards, Ferraris and Jaguars dominated the big-car field, but the fans especially watched No. 15, a blue & white Cunningham C4R, powered...