Word: gonzalez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mans, France, this summer, the 24-hour Grand Prix sports-car race was hardly finished when Winner José Froilan Gonzalez, 33, a strapping, ruddy Argentine, climbed from his Italian Ferrari and announced to all within earshot: "Fangio never won this...
Early last week a group of them came to Arbenz' mahogany-paneled office, and their spokesman, Colonel Ruben Gonzalez Sigui, posed a quiet, pregnant question...
...Mans, France, a sturdy Italian Ferrari sports car, driven by Argentina's Jose Froilan Gonzalez and France's Maurice Trintignant, clocked an impressive 2,523.4 miles in the grinding, 24-hour Le Mans Grand Prix Endurance Race to finish a slim 2.4 miles ahead of last year's winners, Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton in their English Jaguar. In third place, with a total of 2,355 miles: an American Cunningham Special driven by Sherwood Johnston and William Spear. In fifth: Briggs Cunningham himself in another Cunningham Special...
...resulting versatility, Gonzalez says: "I am a weathervane. I move with the winds. My expression is never of a school, but is derived from where I am or what I happen to feel...
Just as he cannot be classified by school, neither can Gonzalez be pigeon holed according to subject matter or media (he uses oils, casein and watercolors). Says he: "Subject matter is unimportant. It is what you do with it that counts . . . I do not try to imitate nature but try to abstract from it what will serve to express a philosophy...