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In the days when motoring was a major U. S. sport, its No. 1 event was the Vanderbilt Cup race-ten laps over 28 miles of Long Island's tortuous dirt roads. Last week at Westbury, L. I., the Vanderbilt Cup race was revived, with a new prize, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Revival Race | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

Long before the race started last week, time trials had made it apparent that U. S. drivers would be outclassed. Fastest qualifying time was made by nervous little Roman-nosed Tazio Nuvolari, who has won 87 out of the 153 races he has entered and is currently considered Europe'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Revival Race | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

Twenty laps in the pool. He was doing fifty this summer but it was a smaller pool. Eyes hurt in the sun, too much chlorine in the water. No cocktail before dinner, swore off two weeks ago and only had one since. Dinner in the Master' lodgings, the Master tall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/7/1936 | See Source »

Nominee Knox stopped, stared. Heads turned, feet shuffled as the owner of the voice, Mrs. Mabel West, 39-year-old Philadelphian in Los Angeles for a visit, scrambled over laps to the aisle. There she proceeded to raise a small vial of iodine to her lips, drink, fall writhing to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Knox in Los Angeles | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

Every installment of the Olympic games produces at least one historic race. With considerable justice, track experts called last week's 1,500-metre final the greatest ever run. The field lined up without Wooderson, who had been put out in a preliminary heat. Hitler reached his box just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympic Games (Cont'd) | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

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