Word: riess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elected last Saturday night in the Society's final election of the 1957-58 academic year were David B. Arnold, Lewis C. Austin, Richard W. Dixon, Steven J. Hirsch, John S. Mautner, David Riess, and Robert A. Weisberg of Adams House...
Mild Cheers. The winners, greeted with polite applause but no marked enthusiasm: German Drivers Hermann Lang and Fritz Riess in a Mercédès-Benz. Another Mercédès, also with German drivers, was second. Third went to a British-driven Nash-Healey. And fourth, of the 17 cars that managed to finish, was fagged-out Cunningham, who, after 19½ hours of driving, had turned the wheel over to Spear. Winning, and record, distance set by the Mercédès-Benz: 2,320 miles, at an average speed of 96.67 m.p.h...