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...Paterson, Schindler seemed to hold back. Time after time, as Veteran Chauffeur Bob Disbrow* hugged the pole out front, Schindler drove his black Offenhauser up alongside him, stomped on the foot-throttle and seemed about to pass. And each time in turn he eased off, slid back into the second slot again. At the race's end, he was still second man. When Schindler pulled up, swung the stump of his left leg over the side and reached for his crutches, his fans showed their disappointment, but Bronco Bill did not. "There was oil on that track," he explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Discreetly Daring | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Died. Harold Ball Disbrow, 47, long time personal physician to John D. Rockefeller, 96 (see p. 56); of apoplexy; in Lakewood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 30, 1936 | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

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