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...Rheims, France, German Mercedes-Benzes entered the 500-kilometer Grand Prix de France road race for the first time since World War II and won first and second places, ahead of an Italian Ferrari...
...Mans, France, a sturdy Italian Ferrari sports car, driven by Argentina's Jose Froilan Gonzalez and France's Maurice Trintignant, clocked an impressive 2,523.4 miles in the grinding, 24-hour Le Mans Grand Prix Endurance Race to finish a slim 2.4 miles ahead of last year's winners, Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton in their English Jaguar. In third place, with a total of 2,355 miles: an American Cunningham Special driven by Sherwood Johnston and William Spear. In fifth: Briggs Cunningham himself in another Cunningham Special...
This June Briggs Cunningham, sports-car builder and racing driver by postwar compulsion, will be out to show that his U.S.-built cars can perform with the best in the world's No. 1 road race: France's famed 24-hour Grand Prix of Endurance at Le Mans. To hundreds of thousands of U S. speed fans, he is the symbol of all their own sporty urges, the man who makes fast cars and races them with the best at home and abroad...
...Persons Are Warned." In Europe, where both salt flats and hot-rods are rare, the racing emphasis is on sports cars and their Grand Prix counterparts.**** The road-racing circuit is year long over such famed courses as Germany's Nürburgring, where half a million crowd the 174 crackling curves, France's narrow Rheims course, where a quarter-of-a-million fans congregate, and England's Silverstone and Goodwood courses, where the crowds reach 125,000. Italy has its closed course at Monza and the wide-open public road race of the Mille Miglia...
...soprano was at her best in modern selections, especially in the Air de Lia. Taken from Debussy's carly cantata L'Enfant Prodigue (for which he won the Prix de Rome), this aria is one of the most taxing in the repertoire. Miss Wheeler managed its wide range with case and made believable, even in a concert setting, the portrait of a bereaved mother's grief...