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...looked like a bad day for the big spin in "The Brickyard." Grey rain clouds scudded over Indianapolis; damp winds skittered across the infield as the Memorial Day 500-mile auto race got under way. But Wild Bill Vukovich, 36, the "Grape Picker" from Fresno, Calif., had no time to worry about weather. He kept his eyes on the track. A two-time winner in the 500, "Vuky" was hell-bent on pulling off an unprecedented three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sudden Death | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...whose face turned red last year when Wine Lover Adenauer could not tell France's lactophilous Premier Pierre Mendes-France how much milk cost in Germany). Lübke's present: a bottle of milk, a token unlikely to wean the Chancellor from the grape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 17, 1955 | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...smaller brand, "but will you have enough money left over to buy a new garage to fit it?" Some people cut sections out of their garage walls, let bumpers protrude. Complained a Chicago motorist: "My garage fits so close, it's like the skin on a grape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Too Big? Too Powerful? | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...shoes and socks, chins himself on the edge of the Pilar's flying bridge, throws one leg up, and, favoring his sore back, slowly raises himself to the roof to take the set of controls. The Pilar glides trimly past Morro Castle. Hemingway delightedly sniffs the sea-grape-scented air and gestures to the whole ocean. "It's the last free place there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An American Storyteller | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...costin' a lot of money, you know. I got it on the grape vine, I got friends in the government, they're gonna take off the hearings in a couple days...

Author: By Harry K. Schwartz, | Title: The Bloodshot Eye | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

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