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...first-day leader turned out to be the little (1½-liter) French Gordini, driven by an ex-motorcycle racer named Jean Behra, who set a blistering average of 89 m.p.h. Only 5 min. 37 sec. behind the Frenchman was Italy's Bracco, with Germany's Karl Kling, greying veteran of prewar races, right at their heels...
...deep ditch. Behra was dragged out of the wreck with compound fractures of nine ribs and severe facial injuries. Bracco's Ferrari took over a slender three-minute lead, but breathing down his neck were the three Mercédès-Benzes, now bunched, paced by Kling. German Coach Neubauer, sending platoons of mechanics up to the next stopover, was exultant: "We are out of the mountains now. When we hit the flat, the race will be all ours...
...little premature-only a little. With the three Mercédès chasing the speedy red Ferrari up over the 10,000-ft. pass to Toluca, down to Mexico's farm belt and into the dry cactus plains, Italy's Bracco lengthened his lead over Kling to seven minutes, left the other two Mercédès half an hour behind. But on the afternoon lap of the next-to-last day, Bracco's luck finally ran out. The clutch of the Ferrari burned out, and the Italian watched in helpless rage as the three...
Pack One. Other industries did likewise. Kling Furniture Factories brought out cheaper new lines and priced their regular furniture 4 ½% to 10% lower. Most of the major tiremakers had introduced low-priced tires and even some automakers were joining the parade: some "extras" became standard equipment. This week General Motors Corp. cut its auto prices from $10 to $40 as G.M. wages (tied to the cost-of-living index) came down 1? an hour...
Born. To Henry Browne Wallace, 28, elder son of Vice President Henry Agard Wallace, and Florence Kling Wallace, 25: their first child, the Vice President's first grandchild, a daughter, Joan Brooks; in Des Moines. Weight: 7 lbs. 10½ oz. Engaged. Leslie Hore-Belisha, 45, onetime (1937-'40) British War Secretary, since then an outspoken House of Commons critic of Winston Churchill; and Cynthia Elliott, British war nurse captured in France by the Nazis in 1940, repatriated last year from a prison camp. Married. Elizabeth Cannell Bradley, 20, only daughter of Lieut. General Omar Bradley, commander...