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...check-up on Sir Oswald's personal cars revealed last week that his Bentley speedster is in a French garage, smashed up. His roaring Mercedes is ready for him the moment he hops out of bed. Herr Adolf Hitler also rides a Mercedes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Positives of Action! | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...photographers. King Albert's straddle and the remarkable pictures of Queen Eliza beth being let down backward from inspecting an Egyptian stone inscription last winter are two examples. Recently their daughter, Crown Princess Marie Jose of Italy, raised one royal leg high over the side of an Italian speedster, in order to climb out. heedless of the fact that lenses were looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Albert Shows How | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

Died. Major Sir Henry O'Neal Dehane Segrave, 34, British Wartime airman, world's record automobile speedster; when his motorboat, Miss England II, after establishing a new water speed record of 98.76 m. p. h. on Lake Windermere, England, struck a submerged tree branch, overturned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 23, 1930 | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...Billy Arnold, motor race driver: the 500-mi. Memorial Day race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, while a thief made off with his private car parked outside the track. Said Speedster Arnold: "I'd like to find whoever took it. I'd give him a title to the darn thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won Jun. 9, 1930 | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

Kaye Don, British speedster who will try to break Segrave's world record, drove his 4,000 h. p. Sunbeam-Coatelen motored Silver Bullet 200 m. p. h. in a practice run at Daytona Beach. Samuel Edward Sheppard, 47, Assistant Director of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories, a scientist so precise that he frequently lies prone to sight for his golf putts, last week received in Manhattan the gold medal which the late Chairman William Henry Nichols of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. created. In accepting, Dr. Sheppard, who often utters startling truths, declared that in many fields pure science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 24, 1930 | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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