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...Alberto Ascari and Giovanni Bracco, winner of this year's famed Mille Miglia. But the betting favorites were the Germans and their hotshot Mercédès-Benz racers, which finished one-two in last summer's Le Mans 24-hour race. Headed by Engineer Alfred Neubauer, the Germans arrived weeks early with 24 mechanics and a truckload of spare parts, then drilled like a football team. Daily driving sessions were followed by nightly blackboard drills, and each mile of the course was memorized...
...Behra was dragged out of the wreck with compound fractures of nine ribs and severe facial injuries. Bracco's Ferrari took over a slender three-minute lead, but breathing down his neck were the three Mercédès-Benzes, now bunched, paced by Kling. German Coach Neubauer, sending platoons of mechanics up to the next stopover, was exultant: "We are out of the mountains now. When we hit the flat, the race will be all ours...
Down to the Plains. As it turned out, Neubauer's brag was a little premature-only a little. With the three Mercédès chasing the speedy red Ferrari up over the 10,000-ft. pass to Toluca, down to Mexico's farm belt and into the dry cactus plains, Italy's Bracco lengthened his lead over Kling to seven minutes, left the other two Mercédès half an hour behind. But on the afternoon lap of the next-to-last day, Bracco's luck finally ran out. The clutch...
Mellern did not have a gas chamber, but it had a crematorium and it worked overtime. Fat Obersturmbannführer Neubauer, the camp's director, had a chauffeured Mercedes, a Hitler mustache and a good stock of real cigars. He had persuaded himself that his was the most "humane" camp in the Third Reich. Weber, the assistant who actually ran Mellern, despised such sentiments; he frankly enjoyed turning living skeletons into dead ones...
...Yard was the scene of a crime yesterday when Private Charles Neubauer, stationed at Fort Devens, was attacked by two erstwhile boon companions while walking near the Johnson Gate. Neubauer reported to the Cambridge police that his attackers had taken his leave card and three dollars...