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...careful plans were upset almost from the start. French Driver Louis Hery piled up his little (750 cc.) Panhard first time around the course. A few hours later he was dead of head injuries. As rain slicked the course, at least a dozen cars skidded, collided or overturned. But a phalanx of 1,000 gendarmes surrounded the track, and spectators at least were kept from harm...
...were not quite so dashing. He is an accomplished yachtsman, horseman and fisherman, and is fond of wrestling with the lion in the royal zoo. He loves to skin dive, once descended 100 ft. off the coast of Corsica. In the 1953 Tour de France, Rainier wrapped his Panhard around a tree, escaped with a cut knee. Whenever he steps into one of his flashy racing cars, all Monaco breathes a prayer for his safety...
...price tag. There was also a front-wheel-drive Citroën, one of France's most popular cars (it has a two-year waiting list), with a two-cylinder engine, maximum speed of 50 m.p.h. and price of $977. Also on display was Panhard, another two-cylinder car, which has a top speed of 85 m.p.h., costs about...
...engine, that is said to get more than 60 miles to the gallon (at an average speed of 38 m.p.h.); front-wheel drive, all-round torsion-bar suspension, a fabric top that rolls up like a windowshade. Perhaps the strangest-looking car at the Paris show was the Dyna-Panhard's "Dynavia" whose ultra-Studebakerish use of glass gave it the air of an airplane cockpit (its two-cylinder engine gets 30 miles to the gallon...
...captained the hockey and baseball teams (playing shortstop), was elected president of the student council, joined Hasty Pudding, Phoenix Club and Signet Society, among others. He developed a passion for foreign cars. He owned, in turn, a Mercedes, Voisin, Panhard-Levassor, Hispano-Suiza. After graduation, with only average grades, he put in a short tour of duty in the postwar army. Then his father's friend George Lee gave him a job in his investment banking house of Lee, Higginson...