Word: carlos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time was when the venerable (since 1911) 2,000-mile Monte Carlo Rally was an adventurous endurance race rich in such hazards as rutted roads, unreliable engines and collapsing tires. Even in recent years, sleet, ice and blinding fog have brought hazard and death to the competitors. But last week, blessed by the balmiest weather in Rally history, a record percentage of finishers-331 of 363 starters-whizzed through the flag-draped finish gate on Monte Carlo's Quai Albert Premier. The only American entrant, Frederick Cramer, 48, a history professor from Mount Holyoke College, summed up this year...
...announced winner was Louis Chiron, 54, a Monte Carlo citizen who sped his 115.h.p. Lancia Aurelia over the final 2.14 miles of twisting city streets at 45 m.p.h. Chiron's secret of success over his Rally route: "Careful timing, eating, planning and determination . . . I munched dried fruit-grapes, apricots, figs-as well as chocolate and sugar all the way. I never quit eating . . . Others lost weight and time...
...Captain's Paradise. Alec Guinness as a ferryboat captain who manages to have a wife (Celia Johnson and Yvonne de Carlo) in each port (TIME...
...Captain's Paradise. Alec Guinness as a ferryboat captain who manages to have a wife (Celia Johnson and Yvonne de Carlo) in each port (TIME...
...loving international hostess; of a heart attack; in a roomette aboard a train taking her from Las Vegas, Nev. back to her Hollywood playground. Inheriting an estimated $12 million from her father, a New York leather manufacturer, she got her title with her second husband, Italy's Count Carlo di Frasso. A fervent believer in the strenuous life, she once hired prizefighters to entertain her guests! joined Cinemactor Gary Cooper on a big-game safari into the African jungle, with the late Mobster Bugsy Siegel set out in a schooner to search for a buried treasure off Costa Rica...