Word: racer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though she is already hotly pursued by the greatest matador in all Spain and engaged to the world's fastest auto-racer, Ava feels drawn to the mysterious stranger. At length, while an ominous soundtrack narrator keeps describing what is all too visible on the screen, and the camera catches some revealing glimpses of Ava swimming out to his anchored ship, the picture's catchall plots bring selfish Ava to the point where she will gladly give her life for love of him. But Mason loves her too much to let her do it. Another flick of Omar...
...Viking makes no claim to be a racer," DeSa said in explaining the length of time he will spend at sea. It will be almost a year from his departure at Panama till he anchors in Poole Harbor in England...
Major General Bryant Edward Moore was a soldier by profession but a sailor by avocation. A down-Easter by birth (Ellsworth, Me.), he spent as much time as he could aboard his big sailing yacht or his Star Class racer...
...touch F. O. A. Schwarz on the "toy" cars. These 1951 models may actually be toys, but it seemed to me that anyone under nine years old in the way of one of these speeding machines would be running a grave risk of suicide. A sleck, black, compressed air racer, which was also available last year, is capable of enormous speeds and gets up to 75 miles per gallon...
...shocked cry went up from the crowd as the leaders roared to the end of a straightaway and into a graveled S curve at a 100-m.p.h. clip. One of the cars just ahead of Goldschmidt, a red Ferrari driven by Veteran Racer Sam Collier,* suddenly spun out of control, whipped halfway through the curve, plunged down a 6-ft. embankment, spun end over end three times. Driver Collier was flung free but died an hour and 20 minutes later of a crushed chest and head injuries...