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...each day's lap, the panting winner is warmly bussed by the local beauty queen, wined & dined by the citizenry and allowed to wear the coveted yellow sweater (le maillot jaune). The eventual winner of the yellow sweater stands to gain some 5,000,000 /rancs ($15,000) in prize money and commercial premiums. When Italy's Bartali won in 1948, the Pope himself sent a telegram of congratulation and blessing...
...flag drop, 33 low-hung, overpowered racing cars, almost blacked out by clouds of dust and exhaust smoke, roared down the brick and asphalt Indianapolis Speedway track last week in the first lap of the 500-mile Memorial Day grind. The Speedway rightfully prides itself on being the proving ground for most of the automotive advances in the past 40 years, and this year improved cars and equipment produced a whole roster of shiny new records. But speed outstripped design. Only six of the starting thoroughbreds managed to last the full distance...
Magneto & Crankshaft. On the 87th lap, Defending Champion Johnny Parsons dropped out with magneto trouble. A broken crankshaft put third-place Walt Faulkner out at 300 miles. Moments later, Mauri Rose, three-time winner, fishtailed into the infield with a collapsed wheel. The car turned turtle, but Mauri crawled out unhurt in the only serious accident...
Jaakko Mikkola and nine top track men board a train for New Haven today on the first lap of their trip to England, where they meet squads from Cambridge and Oxford...
...much as $500 (sample question: "What great U.S. President married Martha Custis?"). Before, during and after the questions, Sponsor Colgate-Palmolive-Peet hawks its products with giant display cards, man-sized toothpaste tubes, animated cartoons, singing commercials, and free samples dumped in each contestant's lap...