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...brief history, Mexico's border-to-border Pan-American road race, world's longest (1,908 miles) and most punishing, has more than earned its reputation as a mankiller: in its first four years, it took the lives of 17 drivers and spectators. Before this year's opening gun was fired, two Argentine competitors were killed in pre-race tests. Before the contestants roared across the flat homestretch to Juarez last week, so many cars had missed turns, somersaulted off the road and plowed through packs of spectators, that more than a score were injured and seven...
...Peter Pan (by James M. Barrie; music by Mark Charlap and Jule Styne; lyrics by Carolyn Leigh and Betty Comden and Adolph Green) was bound to become a musical in time-and doubtless in time for Mary Martin to play Peter. She looks as boyish as can be expected of any grownup of the opposite sex. She is hard to beat at singing, she can dance, she can duel with Captain Hook; and when she flies through the air, she races and soars and dips like some Peter Pan-American...
...usual, the travelers had taken their worst habits with them; they were playing unreliable, unpredictable tennis. Far off form last week, Vic Seixas, the new U.S. champion, was knocked out in the quarter finals of Mexico City's Pan-American tournament. (The week before, Seixas had been beaten by Mexico's Gustavo Palafox in Davis Cup competition.) Temperamental Art Larsen let Mexican officiating get under his skin, lost out in the semifinals. Only Tony Trabert held his own against the mediocre competition, and at week's end he won the title...
...steaming jungles of southern Mexico, over mountains and past frowning volcanoes, across the sunbaked plains of the north to the banks of the Rio Grande, stretches the longest, most punishing car-racing course in the world. On these twisting, plunging 1,912 miles of macadam and concrete, the fourth Pan-American road race began last week. One of the greatest international meets ever held, it had 177 starters from ten countries and was actually four races in one-big and small sports cars, big and small stock cars. At stake was a total $101,271 in prize money...
...Newton commuter has won 28 consecutive dual matches in the 123 pound division and has never been defeated in this type of competition. He also won the National AAU championship his sophomore year, was an alternate on the 1951 Pan-American team, a member of the U.S.A. squad which toured Japan during the summer of 1951, and fourth in the tryouts for the 1952 Olympic team...