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...individual order-this car, to sell at $18,000 and to be the highest priced car in the world, was last week's announcement of President E. L. Cord of the Auburn Automobile Co. He has just purchased the Duesenberg Motors Co., which Fred S. Duesenberg, automotive genius, racer, created.* Inventor Duesenberg will be vice president of the new concern-Duesenberg, Inc., which will be entirely separate from the Automobile...
...celebrated, daring and slightly comic figure from Garden City, L. I., placed third in this event, then stepped into a wing-clipped Curtiss Oriole and won the 84-mile Independence Hall free-for-all, tipping around the pylons at an average speed of 136.11 m.p.m., ahead of the "mystery" racer of Harry F. Pitcairn, Philadelphia millionaire enthusiast...
Hunger was a huge irony, to a man with broken jaws. Rain set in and he cupped his hands, slaking off some of his delirium. Planes droned overhead, at intervals, but from their sound it was plain that the wrecked Curtiss racer was invisible from above. Flyer Bettis eyed the downslope of the mountain and started creeping on his three good members, with a limp thing dragging over the windfalls. At clearings he would pull himself erect and hop along from tree to bush, every jolt costing him a groan. At seven o'clock by his watch he heard...
...week, scaled with a virile roar the heights of Monte Titano, swept into the Borgo of San Marino, oldest* and smallest† republic in the world. Behind, far behind, panted a lumbering caravan of limousines. Before they had scaled the nearly perpendicular republic, Signor Mussolini had leaped from his racer, received the respectful welcome of the two Capitani Reggenii (Regents) of San Marino. As the swaying limousines drew up, there clambered out, Signora Mussolini (Rachele Guidi), their daughter Edda, their sons Bruno and Vittorio. Round about stood in attitudes of somewhat disgruntled welcome, the 60 Grand Councillors of San Marino...
...expected to fall in their mid-teens, among many women, beginning with some warm young Brazilians. The New Englander is told off to inculcate hygiene in this young Marcantonio, whose passions incline also to driving highpowered motor cars and training with spasmodic vehemence to become an Olympic foot-racer. The hygienic regimen is balked by Marcantonio's incestuous flare-up with his half-sister, ending in suicide...