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...drove it sat on a high open seat wearing a heavy double-breasted coat. His face, protected by goggles and deprived, by a windmask, of the cigar stump which was already as much one of its features as a nose, looked like a death's head. Driver Barney Oldfield had left school to be waiter in an insane asylum, left the asylum to be a bicycle racer, left his bicycle to work in the Ford auto factory. Last week Barney Oldfield, now 53, was at Daytona Beach, Fla., as was Sir Malcolm Campbell with his Blue Bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Old Car | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi shuffled over the rose-&-yellow carpets of London's swank Grosvenor House last week to a luncheon in his honor by the old Fruitarian Society. While St. Gandhi slowly chomped grapes and baked apples, Dr. Josiah Oldfield, presiding Fruitarian, spoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Royal Tea | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...altogether. And another, thing! Nearly every speed cop when he catches up with a speeder asks "Hey, d'ya think yer Barney Oldneld?" That is, of course, when they're not askin': "Whezdafire, huh?" and "Wher' th'lya goin'?" You know me, BARNEY OLDFIELD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

Wrestler Jim Londos who had won a match the night before put a bet on Sweep All, horse of Charles T. Fisher (Bodies). Barney Oldfield, smoking a cigaret, sat on the club house veranda talking to Jack Curley who once taught him how to ride a bicycle. Boxer Max Schmeling stood and looked at the crowd with his habitually puzzled expression. Actress Queenie Smith made excited comments to her escort Drama critic Robert Garland. Blind Thomas Pryor Gore, onetime Senator from Oklahoma said he liked Twenty Grand. John Hertz remembered the year his Reigh Count won the Derby. Jockey Earl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kentucky Derby | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...still like speed," averred Mr. Oldfield, "but the highway is no place for it. A man should consider the safety of others. And you can get anywhere you're going soon enough if you'll hit a reasonable speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 4, 1931 | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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