Word: manse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even in his restaurant, René has never been far from the track. Drivers are forever dropping by for advice, old friends come to reminisce about the races in which he made his reputation: Le Mans, the Grand Prix of Monaco, Indianapolis, Targa Florio in Sicily, the "Million-Franc Race...
The Fairbanks on the current job is 29-year-old Tony Curtis, who plays the broadsword, mans the barbican and generally acrobattles with such enthusiasm that no one should be disturbed by a few Curtis crudities. Example: when he kisses a girl-in this case Janet Leigh, who is Mrs...
When the Nazi submariners emerged from the U-boat, they were greeted with a rataplan of small-caliber fire from encircling destroyers. Planes growled overhead, and depth charges still geysered around the stricken submarine. The Ger mans lost no time going overboard, and when Commander F. S. Hall, destroyer division...
At Le Mans, France, this summer, the 24-hour Grand Prix sports-car race was hardly finished when Winner José Froilan Gonzalez, 33, a strapping, ruddy Argentine, climbed from his Italian Ferrari and announced to all within earshot: "Fangio never won this one!"
¶ In Le Mans, France, a sturdy Italian Ferrari sports car, driven by Argentina's Jose Froilan Gonzalez and France's Maurice Trintignant, clocked an impressive 2,523.4 miles in the grinding, 24-hour Le Mans Grand Prix Endurance Race to finish a slim 2.4 miles ahead of...