Word: bested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flat, twisting course laid out on an old military airfield near Sebring, Fla., the world's best drivers and fastest cars met last week in the first Grand Prix of the United States. The man to beat was a broad-faced Aussie named Jack Brabham, 33. A steady man with a mechanic's instinct for pushing his low-slung Cooper-Climax no harder than metal and rubber can stand, Brabham rose out of the ranks this year (TIME, Aug. 10) to take the lead in the world driving championship...
...with an outside chance to outdrive Brabham for the championship in the last Grand Prix race of 1959 was Britain's nonchalant Stirling Moss, 30, who, on a good day and when his car holds up, is probably the world's best driver. But Moss, who had earlier broken the speed limit and outraced an enraged sheriff on his way to the track, slowed to a halt on the fifth lap in an ooze of black smoke from a crippled gearbox. That left Britain's Dentist-Driver Tony Brooks as the only other threat to Brabham...
...practice run at Aspen, Colo., young (23) Buddy Werner, the U.S.'s best skier, crossed his skis, breaking his leg and the hearts of U.S. ski enthusiasts, who had counted on him to snap Europe's long dominance of the sport, take the U.S.'s first-ever gold medal in the men's events at the 1960 Winter Olympics, scheduled for Squaw Valley, Calif, this February...
...After a faltering start, the Baltimore Colts overwhelmed the Los Angeles Rams, 45-26, to win the Western Conference title, will match pro football's best offense against the game's best defense (TIME, Nov. 30) in the play-off later this month with the Eastern Conference's champion New York Giants. ¶ Looking for more batting power, the New York Yankees staged the biggest trade of the off-season by giving up aging (37) Outfielder Hank Bauer, erratic Pitcher Don Larsen (1959 record: 6-7), fumble-thumbed Outfielder Norm Siebern, and Reserve First Baseman Marv Throneberry...
HENRY KOERNER, 44, is one of the nation's best living painters,*but he has long worked in the shadows of two masters, first Giotto and then Cézanne. His latest work still shows their influence, yet displays a new and surer synthesis that is unmistakably Koerner...