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...half a million New Yorkers jammed out to watch the Vanderbilt Cup races on Long Island. In the Vanderbilt were such car names, now dim, as Pope-Toledo, Darracq, Simplex and Locomobile, such still familiar ones as Mercedes and Fiat. The driver lists included such U.S. professionals as Barney Oldfield, Ralph de Palma, such millionaire amateurs as William K. Vanderbilt himself and Spencer Wishart, such Europeans as Jenatzy, first man to exceed 60 m.p.h., Lancia, Nazzaro, Victor Hemery and Louis Chevrolet. But the toplofty language of the racing notices enraged many a Long Island citizen from the first: "All persons...
Inheriting nothing, Savage was solely dependent on whatever patron his great personal charm could procure for him. His supposed mother occasionally paid him a sum that was either conscience money or silence money. And, among other, Ann Oldfield, the most beautiful actress of the time, gave him an annual allowance. Well aware that political favor was all important for his subsistence, ho made no qualms about forgetting his Tory sentiments, and often curried the favor of a potential Whig patron, at the negligible expense of self respect...
...Royal Tradition. Daimler-Benz's highly skilled workers take it for granted that the new car will be a winner, for their company has a pace-setting tradition. Old Karl Benz invented one of the first gasoline engines, built racers which set such speed marks as Barney Oldfield's 131-m.p.h. pace on Daytona Beach's measured mile in 1910. Gottlieb Daimler, whose company merged with Benz's in 1926, built the first practical gasoline-driven car, and turned out luxurious limousines for royalty (e.g., England's Queen Alexandra and Germany's own Kaiser...
...America, where he won the "Eva Perón Stakes," the National Argentine Sports Car Race, in 1951. He often drives for famed U.S. Sports-Car builder Briggs Cunningham,* and in last November's Pan-American race he became the first U.S. driver since the days of Barney Oldfield to drive a car (Mercedes) sponsored by Daimler-Benz...
Mixmaster Needed. In a sense, the new car is as old as the auto industry, which was weaned on sports cars and road races. In the first two decades of the century, such iron-armed drivers as Barney Oldfield and Louis Chevrolet were the heroes of the day. In 1906 a Stanley Steamer achieved an unofficial speed of 197 m.p.h. Young bloods roared along the dusty roads in Mercers, Stutzes, Mercedes and Locomobiles, exhausts thundering like Catling guns, driving horses and timid folk into the fields...