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...competition was stiffer than expected: at the end of the first two hours the crowds were screaming excitedly as Britain's Mike Hawthorn, in a Jaguar, was well in the lead, followed by two Ferraris and then the three Mercedes. Hawthorn had done 28 laps in less than 120 minutes, and was just about due to pull in for refueling...
...nearing the pits and roaring toward the grandstand turn when he got a stop signal from the pit crew. Neither Hawthorn nor anyone else will ever know whether the signal was late, or whether his reflexes were slow, or whether the reflexes of the following drivers were slower...
ANALYZE YOURSELF (320 pp.]-Prince Leopold Loewensteln & William Gerhard!-Hawthorn Books...
...SECOND TREASURY OF EARLY AMERICAN HOMES, by Richard Praff (144 pp.; Hawthorn; $12.50), shows, entirely in color, 57 of the nation's most beautiful homes, interiors and exteriors. Most of them are masterpieces of gracious architecture...
...laps at Nürburgring, Gonzalez hung on grimly; then he gave up. Fangio and the Silver Arrow were too good. Averaging nearly 83 m.p.h. on the tricky course, Fangio finished first in 3:45:45.8. In second place, in Gonzalez Ferrari: England's Mike Hawthorn. Said Gonzalez with eloquent Latin dejection: "The Mercedes went by me like it was jet-propelled. Poof, poof, poof...