Word: racer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the death of Auto Racer Mike Hawthorn in an ordinary accident on an ordinary road last winter, Britain's fastest, most expert drivers have pretty much throttled down out on the highway, with one exception: Countess Attlee, 63, wife of and longtime driver for former Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Last week Lady Attlee, whose cool daring behind the wheel gave newsmen a run for their copy during election campaigns, had a bit of bad luck, cracked a collarbone in a collision at a North London crossroads known as "Danger Junction." It was her fifth crash in four years...
...Channel, then ran most of the 135 miles to Paris, sipping fruit juice and munching grass along the way. One competitor used souped-up power lawnmowers to and from his plane; another, wise to the ways of city traffic, tried roller skates, but did not do too well. Ace Racer Stirling Moss hopped into a Renault-Dauphine, roared out to the airport, put his car on a Silver City Airways "carferry," landed at Le Bourget and zipped into Paris...
Died. Marshall Teague, 37, auto racer, A.A.A. national stock car champion in 1952 and 1954; in the 500-yd. rolling crash of a new Sumar Streamliner; during a test run on the new speed track at Daytona Beach...
Tripp has been in business for himself only since 1951. Son of a civil engineer, blond, shock-haired Bill Tripp is a lifelong Long Islander, has sailed everything from the family Star boat to ocean racers and frostbite dinghies, put in a twelve-year apprenticeship with Designers Rhodes and Stephens. As with all unknowns in the cliquish yacht business, Tripp at first found the going tough. In 1955 he finally got a chance to design an ocean racer, the yawl Katingo. The boat promptly won the American Yacht Club cruise two years in succession...
...late, great auto racer...