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...annual 500-mile automobile race at the Indianapolis Speedway is a joyride compared to a race like the Gran Premio d'ltalia at Monza, the purpose of which is to test handling ability, brakes, acceleration, by means of curves. This year officials removed the famed Lesmo curve, which each year has claimed one or more victims, altered the course to include ten right-angle curves, reversed the direction of the race which, like all others in Europe, had always been clockwise...
James S. Knowlson, elected last April to the executive committee of Stewart-Warner Corp., was made chairman of the board of directors, succeeding the late Robert J. Graham. Onetime official of General Electric Co.. now president of Chicago's Speedway Manufacturing Co.. Chairman Knowlson went on Stewart-Warner's board of directors after the com pany was forced to clean house by the accusations of its fourth largest stockholder and most famed inventor, Oscar Ulysses Zerk (TIME, March...
...almost every sport there is someone whose nickname is "Wild Bill." "Wild Bill" Cummings got his from his father who was a racetrack driver from 1907 to 1921. Young Cummings was born within earshot of the Indianapolis Speedway, learned to distinguish Barney Oldfield's car by its sound, promised his mother that some day he would win the 500-mile race. He gathered speed slowly, first as a Western Union messenger boy, later as a taxidriver. When he was 16, he began driving in motorcycle races, graduated to automobiles two years later. He finished fifth in the 500-mile...
...nearby. Federal employes were let out early to scamper home to safety ahead of the storm. Six inches of rain fell in 24 hours. All street lights were out of commission. Venerable trees were blasted down around the Capitol and the White House. The Potomac River climbed over the Speedway...
...Indianapolis Speedway was built of a dirt, sand and tar mixture in 1909, rebuilt of brick in 1910 by Carl Fisher, later famed for his promotions at Miami and Montauk Point, and the late James Allison of Allison Engineering Co., to accommodate a top speed of 80 m.p.h. Automobile speeds have so increased that no car may now race at the Speedway unless it can go 100 m.p.h. The track is graded at 45° on the turns, 20° on the short straightaways, flat on the stretches. The only attempt to improve it since it was built was just...