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...without a single fatality. But this time, while the riders managed to survive, the devilish mountain course proved more than a match for the British bikes that have dominated the races since World War II. The Junior T.T. (for machines up to 350 cc.) went to an Italian Moto Guzzi; the Senior T.T. (for 500-cc. bikes) was won easily by British Motorcycle Champion Geoff Duke, mounted on a four-cylinder Italian Gilera. Duke's best time over a 37¼ mile lap: 99.97 m.p.h...
...Canada). Falvey is the complete opposite of his rugged, swashbuckling predecessor, Royce G. Martin (onetime paymaster for Pancho Villa), who died minutes after his horse Goyamo ran in the 1954 Kentucky Derby (TIME, May 10). Falvey joined Auto-Lite in 1934, when it bought out Moto-Meter Gauge and Equipment Corp., for which he was patent attorney. He built up Auto-Lite's legal and patent division, rose to vice president for industrial relations...
Married. Peter Lorre, 49, Hungarian-born cinemenace (M, Mysterious Mr. Moto); and Annemarie Brenning Stoldt, thirtyish, daughter of a Hamburg fish wholesaler; he for the third time, she for the second; in Hamburg, Germany...
Divorced. Peter Lorre, 49, droop-eyed cinemenace (M, Mr. Moto, Double Confession); by Kaaren Verne Lorre, 35, former cinemactress (The Seventh Cross, Kings Row); after eight years of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas...
Died. Frederic Rodrigo Gruger, 82, dean of U.S. magazine illustrators who helped design he Satevepost's first modern cover, illustrated John Marquand's "Mr Moto" yarns and Earl Derr Biggers' "Charlie Chan" series...