Word: ferrari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours of the race. Only 19 of the 49 entries finished. One generous French driver, Henri Louveau, threw away his chance of winning by stopping to help an Englishman who had cracked up on a curve. Another Englishman, 36-year-old Lord Selsdon, driving an Italian-made, twelve-cylinder Ferrari, barely stood off Louveau's challenge and won, with an average of 82 m.p.h. for 1,975 miles...
...Italian ended Up with his radiator embedded in the ticket office of Monte Carlo's railroad station. Last week, after 50 laps (halfway), eleven of the 19 cars in the race had quit. But Igor, gripping the wheel of his No. 36, a crimson Ferrari, was still in the running. Then it happened...
...54th lap, his Ferrari skidded out of control. In the stands by the waterfront, Monte Carlo's glossy postwar idlers gasped and screamed. Igor's auto spun crazily and came to rest, backside-forward against a pile of straw. Slowly, with compressed lips, the prince emerged from his wrecked car, walked with dignity into the bar of the Hotel de Paris and was not seen again...
Died. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, 72, heavyweight Italian composer of lightweight opera (The Jewels of the Madonna, The Secret of Susanne); of a heart ailment; in Venice. He enlivened dying operatic formulas, made a great success of putting many old styles to a few new uses...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Overture to Wolf-Ferrari's The Secret of Susanne, Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Narrator: Basil Rathbone...