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...race driver himself, Designer Moore picked his two drivers carefully: he knew that one slip on race day would twist a Moore car into junk. His choices: 1) rabbit-faced, mustached Mauri Rose, a speedway veteran; 2) Bill Holland, a dirt-track expert who had never driven in Indianapolis' famed...
Indianapolis Speedway Auto Race (Fri. 4 p.m., Mutual). Final laps of the annual 500-mile thriller...
Last week in Manhattan Sir Robert showed off his latest model. Installed on the bridge of the great Queen Elizabeth, it makes wartime radar look like a dim-eyed has-been. When the Elizabeth comes up the Narrows, the "scope" shows a highly detailed map, with buildings, docks, the speedway along the Brooklyn shore. Ships lying at anchor are well-defined shapes, not mere blobs. As the big ship approaches her berth, the scope shows the dock, the ferries, even the small tugs under the Elizabeth's bows...
Indianapolis Speedway Race (Thurs. 1:15 p.m., Mutual). First postwar resumption of America's soo-mile auto speed classic...
...Proprietor Eddie Rickenbacker announced that his Indianapolis speedway would resume auto racing next Memorial Day, predicted a new wrinkle: jet cars...