Word: mg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 into the pits after one close...
...police-beat check on hospitals that tuberculous children under six could not get hospital care anywhere in the state. In anger he pounded out a series of articles that started one of the best-known, singlehanded crusades in Texas newspapering. Since 1946, he has crisscrossed Texas in his MG, buttonholing politicians, speaking before fund-raising rallies, and reporting his progress in the News. When a wealthy Texas widow died, McCormick persuaded her executors to use $250,000 of her estate to build a 52-bed hospital for tuberculous children. By last week he had promises from dozens of leading politicians...
...sports-car boom has spawned dozens of kits. Doepke has put out a 50-part set that assembles into a realistic scale model of the MG; Ideal has a Chevrolet Corvette model kit for $4. For more ambitious builders, Revell has motorized its popular "Big Mo" battleship kit ($4.95) with a ready-assembled electric motor. William L. Gilbert Clock Corp. has an 18-piece set ($5.95) that can be made into an electric clock in a short time...
...your initial position. Looking European will help. Buy a belted jacket and a pair of black Italian sandals, be generous with tins of Players' cigarettes, and affect a slight difficulty in getting used to American liquor. Little things make a big impression: you might, for instance, invest in an MG...
...Briggs Cunningham flew antisubmarine patrols for the Coast Guard (after being turned down as over age by the Air Force). When it was over, he tucked his flying license away and took a hard look at the new European sports cars. His first, purchase was a chirpy little British MG, soon followed by a 2- liter Ferrari and a Jaguar I 20. Meanwhile, the sportscar revival in the U.S. was gathering speed. A highly successful road race was held in 1948 at Watkins Glen. N.Y., another at Bridgehampton, L.I. in 1949. The enthusiasm spread to races at Elkhart Lake...