Word: racer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Papa Marzotto did not want his four boys to race. It was raining hard, the mountain roads were slick and treacherous, and there was word of snow in the passes. A veteran road-racer himself before he got too busy with his textile business, 55-year-old Father Marzotto knew about such things. But this race was the Mille Miglia, Italy's most important road contest for stock cars, and the Marzotto brothers were determined to drive their Ferraris in the big international field of 383 drivers, many of them Europe's top professionals. As it turned...
...models in the show ranged in price (delivered in New York) from $149 for Austin Motor Co.'s pedal-power racer for moppets to $14,780 for a Rolls-Royce town car. Most eye-catching entries were Daimler's linden green five-passenger convertible ($13,025) and a six-passenger black sedan ($7,150) which has collapsible tables for the rear-seat passengers, a cosmetic shelf behind the rear side-window, and a dashboard pushbutton to draw shades across the rear window. Runners-up were the Javelin Jupiter ($2,548) of Jowett Cars, Ltd., a dashing convertible that...
...street clothes are jogging beside another racer. "Come on, Joe. Attaboy. Almost there." At the corner of Exeter street they stop and he heads for the finish line alone. The street is broad and empty and he runs straight down the middle of it. On the sidewalk, a little girl is whimpering because her balloon has been destroyed...
...FLYING DISC? WEIRD SKY RACER ZOOMS ACROSS