Word: jaguars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house completely furnished. Out of sight of the squire, Patience lived like something of a lord himself. When the daily grind of grape-pitting at the manor was over, Patience would slip away, clad in the best, and whisk off 50 miles to London in his master's Jaguar to flash ?5 notes in the eyes of a bevy of girl friends. By the time his master married, Patience himself was already paying alimony to one exwife, supporting another and paying ardent court to a prospective third. Where, wondered the local police, who kept a closer eye on Butler...
...race driver in the world knew about the 24-hour Grand Prix of Endurance at Le Mans. France. First, it was still the supreme test of driving skill and sports-car durability. And second, it was growing increasingly risky because of the conglomeration of big cars, e.g., Mercedes, Ferrari, Jaguar, and little cars, e.g., Gordini, MG, Porsche, racing side by side on a strip that in some places is little wider than an old-fashioned two-lane U.S. highway. During the trials, the Mercedes team's Pierre Levegh, a 49-year-old veteran of 20 years' driving, coasted...
...pits a well-drilled squad of mechanics worked steadily to keep Millionaire Sportsman Briggs Cunningham's front-running D-Jaguar ahead of the field. Scores of dockers spelled each other in the lavish Cunningham trailer as they tried to keep track of the competition, to warn Drivers Mike Hawthorne and Phil Walters when the pack was closing...
...underrate his competition, Dreyfus worries most about 1) a British-built, 3,442-cc. Jaguar entered by Briggs Cunningham, who owned last year's winning Osca, 2) a 2,999-cc. Ferrari to be driven by Italy's aging (48) Piero Taruffi and America's Harry Schell and 3) a 2,660-cc. Austin-Healey, handled by British Champion Stirling Moss and Co-Driver Lance Macklin...
...EAGLE, THE JAGUAR, AND THE SERPENT, by Miguel Covarrubias (314 pp.; Knopf; $15), is a beautifully illustrated, splendidly produced volume on the primitive but often strangely modern-looking art of the North American Indian and the Eskimo. Obviously a labor of love, the text by Mexican Artist Covarrubias is lucid and authoritative...