Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glenn Cunningham, who won the Wanamaker six times (never bettering 4:11), ran a specially paced 4:04.4 mile on the oversize (6⅔ laps to the mile) Dartmouth track, since dismantled...
Johnny was soon racing all over the U.S. (he won the Elkhart Lake, Wis. race twice), Europe and South America, where he won the "Eva Perón 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...
...Nash-Healey, assembled it abroad with a British chassis, an Italian body (by Pinin Farina), and Nash engine and transmission, etc. The car was good enough to take third in the 24-hour Le Mans race in France last year, perhaps the world's toughest. Millionaire Briggs Cunningham built a car with a souped-up Chrysler engine that took fourth in the same race. Some small manufacturers, notably Britain's Allard Motor Co., built cars with Cadillac and Chrysler engines and many standard American parts and saw them lick the ears off finely tuned European sports cars...
Buckingham Palace announced that some of the Queen's old heroes would have their place of due honor at the coronation: Viscount Cunningham, former First Sea Lord and hero of the Mediterranean, will carry St. Edward's crown into the Abbey; Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein will bear the royal standard; Viscount Portal, World War II Air Chief of Staff, will bear the scepter with the cross; and Earl Alexander of Tunis, Defense Minister, will carry the orb, a golden globe with jeweled cross, symbolic of the sovereignty of Christ...
...Republicans faced employment problems of their own. Wrote Columnist Bill Cunningham in the Boston Herald: "I don't know where I get off feeling sorry for Governor Stevenson and the Democrats . . . I'm practically out of work. For at least a dozen years I've been hammering the theme that 'we need a change' . . . O.K. We've got the change. But what...