Word: racer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cinemactor Charles Coburn, 73, paid a nostalgic visit to Coney Island, where, back in 1897, he used to work as a bike racer...
Playboy. Most of his time he spent at Cannes, on the French Riviera, where he had bought the palatial Château de Thorenc (reported purchase price: $250,000). In his garage were a pale blue Lincoln convertible, a black Citroen limousine, a blue Simca "Gordoni" one-seat racer, a sleek Italian two-seater, a Simca-8 sports model. He also kept several motorcycles. He insisted that every engine run "as accurately as a watch...
Hart broke a chain in Wellesley Hills and got lost near the finish line, but still managed to arrive before the official timers--who drove cars. He ended the 14-mile route almost three minutes before the next Harvard-to-Wellesley racer...
Prize for the winner will be a new English Dawes racer, the two-wheeled equivalent of a Rolls-Royce. The Dawes and 12 other prizes will be donated by the Bicycle Exchange. Competitors in the race will put up nothing more than a 25-cent entrance...
...Peter Richard Monkhouse's British Healey somersaulted into a field and he died in the crash; Alvasio Bassi was crushed to death when his car turned turtle in a sweeping skid on the slippery asphalt. Fatalities did not compare with 1938, when 23 spectators were killed when one racer skidded into a crowd (Mussolini banned the race the next year), but it was bloody enough...