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Died. Chet Miller, 50, dean of U.S. racing-car drivers; at the Indianapolis Speedway. Good enough to hold the track's one-lap speed record (139.6 m.p.h.), Veteran Miller never won the annual 500-mile speedway classic, decided that this year's attempt would be his last. He climbed into his V-8 Novi Special for a fast practice spin, lost control, crashed into the barrier, became the speedway's 43rd victim...
...such, he became the best known in the U.S. to newsmen, and his Manhattan firm of Steve Hannagan Associates made millions getting the public better acquainted with such clients as Miami Beach, the Union Pacific Railroad, Coca-Cola, Owens-Illinois Glass, the Indianapolis Speedway and 30-odd others. It was Steve Hannagan-a pressagent with an unabashed circus flair-who made the bathing girl a stock shot for the American press, and who persuaded newspaper readers that Prizefighter Gene Tunney was really a Shakespearean scholar...
...newspaper training and common sense." Stephen Jerome Hannagan had both. At 14, he broke in as a $1-a-week part-time cub on his home-town Lafayette (Ind.) Morning Journal. He was campus correspondent for the Indianapolis Star during two years at Purdue, became pressagent for the Indianapolis Speedway, and the daredevil exploits of its racing drivers. Impressed by Hannagan's zip and Irish charm, Publisher Roy W. Howard took him to New York to work for the United Press, later set him writing N.E.A.'s Broadway column. Flamboyant Steve quit after four years to go back...
...nightspots, where twice-divorced Hannagan was oftenest in the company of Cinemactress Ann Sheridan. In work & play, he traveled at such a pace that one friend said: "He lived three lives. When Hannagan flew to Africa it was, as usual, on business (for Coca-Cola). There, last week, his speedway pace caught up with him. At 53, in his hotel room at Nairobi Kenya, Hannagan died of a heart attack. In tribute, spoke Roy Howard: "No training, however good, made Steve the way he was. He was a natural...
Before this week's race, Tim Flock took an extra precaution. He welded a safety rollover bar to the top of his Hudson Hornet. As it turned out, it saved his life. Hitting 85 m.p.h. on the straightaways of the Speedway's half-mile track before 10,000 racing fans, Flock was in second place behind Thomas when disaster struck. On the 163rd lap of the 100-mile race, Flock's rear axle broke. The right rear wheel went spinning into the infield, and the Hudson rolled over. Brother Fonty, one of the daredevil Flock family,* driving...