Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taking time out from his racing cars, Millionaire Sportsman Briggs Cunningham, flying the burgee of the Pequot Yacht Club on his trim sloop Spindrift, won the National Atlantic Class sailing championship at the Sea Cliff (L.I.) Yacht Club. Second: Cunningham's clubmate Hoyt Perry. Third: Novelist John (The Watt) Hersey...
...lawyer. The three ended up in top posts-Morris as president, Plymat as treasurer, Mallon as secretary-but counted only 250 lonely pol-cyholders their first year. They now have 120,000 policyholders, of all faiths, in 47 states, including such well-known drys as ex-Record Miler Glenn Cunningham and the University of Illinois' Physiologist Dr. Andrew...
JOSEPH A. CUNNINGHAM Philadelphia
...some sort of signal system working. Our cars go too fast." But there were other things to think about when race day dawned fine, dry and made for speed. On the dot of 4 p.m. the 60 sports-car entrants-among them, Mercedes, Jaguar, Ferrari, Frazer-Nash, Maserati, Cunningham-began the 24-hour run. Right after getaway they whipped past the grandstand into the sharp Tertre Rouge turn, roared on down the straightaway on a four-mile dash toward the Mulsanne hairpin, and on around the 8.38 mile circuit past the White House...
...pits a well-drilled squad of mechanics worked steadily to keep Millionaire Sportsman Briggs Cunningham's front-running D-Jaguar ahead of the field. Scores of dockers spelled each other in the lavish Cunningham trailer as they tried to keep track of the competition, to warn Drivers Mike Hawthorne and Phil Walters when the pack was closing...