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Fanfaron IV was snatched from the butcher, carefully trained as a steeplechaser. He got his first big chance in the Prix des Landes at Enghien, Belgium last spring. He won. All season long, Fanfaron IV ran scared. In eight races he finished first four times, second twice. He earned 4,000,000 francs. Last week in the Prix Georges Brinquant at Auteuil, Fanfaron won once more and put another 2,000-000 francs in his owner's pocket...
...Whipping into the lead right from the start, Dr. Sherwood Johnston of Greenwich, Conn. took his Jaguar D over the dangerous, twisting course at Watkins Glen, N.Y. at an average 81.92 m.p.h. to win the eighth annual sports car Grand Prix. Second: Bill Spear of Southport, Conn., who averaged 81.1 m.p.h. in his Maserati...
...suppressed their strike. Its intellectual revolutionists spoke of revolution as lyrically as a mystical communion, a tragic but glorious experience which transfigured men. It made his generation aware of a new kind of contemporary hero, the "engaged man," at grips with the vital issues of history. It won the Prix Goncourt, and Gide described it as "panting with an anguish almost unbearable." Cried François Mauriac: "Here is a youth who since adolescence has been moving against society, a dagger in his hand, and who to stab it has sought out its most vulnerable point, in Asia . . . But look...
There were two things that every good race driver in the world knew about the 24-hour Grand Prix of Endurance at Le Mans. France. First, it was still the supreme test of driving skill and sports-car durability. And second, it was growing increasingly risky because of the conglomeration of big cars, e.g., Mercedes, Ferrari, Jaguar, and little cars, e.g., Gordini, MG, Porsche, racing side by side on a strip that in some places is little wider than an old-fashioned two-lane U.S. highway. During the trials, the Mercedes team's Pierre Levegh, a 49-year...
Meanwhile, the Grand Prix ground on. Around 1 a.m. on orders from Stuttgart, Mercedes pulled out of the race. After a while, rain pelted down. The race and the crowd's vigil continued. But when Mike Hawthorn's Jaguar ripped past the finish line to win the 1955 Le Mans next afternoon, few people even bothered to cheer...