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Even in his restaurant, René has never been far from the track. Drivers are forever dropping by for advice, old friends come to reminisce about the races in which he made his reputation: Le Mans, the Grand Prix of Monaco, Indianapolis, Targa Florio in Sicily, the "Million-Franc Race" at Montlhery. When Chicago Industrialist S. H. ("Wacky") Arnolt decided to enter three of his Arnolt-Bristol sports cars in this year's Grand Prix at Sebring, it was not surprising that he turned to René Dreyfus when he needed a team captain. And it was not surprising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Oldtimer | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...slight re-shufflings of line positions will produce a new forward wall for the Yardlings today. HARVARD BROWN Bender lor. Powers Sedgwick ltr Cardoza Kanter lgr. Brison O'Brien c Frankenbach Rosenau rgl DeSimon Sitter rtl Hill Callahan rcl Scuiz Lowell qb Pastuezak Bottenfield rhl Savoye West rhl Florio White fb Beaulieu...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Return to Action, Face Unbeaten Bruin Today | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

Rockefeller Fellowship in the School of Public Health to Dr. Lloyd J. Florio, of Alden, New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Awards $3,860 in Four Research Fellowships | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

Hurrying to the foundering British freighter Exeter City through a swirling mid-Atlantic storm steamed the American Merchant Line's S. S. American Merchant, captained by Giles C. Stedman, 35, hero of the Ignazio Florio rescue in 1925. A giant wave had swept overboard the Exeter City's skipper and three men, her bridge and most of her superstructure. Unable to launch a free lifeboat. Captain Stedman shot a lifeline aboard the fast-sinking freighter, by means of which the ship's 22 survivors towed over an empty lifeboat, had themselves towed to safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 30, 1933 | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...When Florio speaks, what virgin could withstand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAUSETTE DE LUNDI. | 5/8/1882 | See Source »

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