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MEMORABLE MOMENTS AT THE INDY 500.(News)
1911: Speedway management decides to run just one major event for 1911, rather than multiple races over several days. Forty cars, mostly stripped-down passenger vehicles, line up to start the first Indy 500. Ray Harroun, in a purpose-built Marmon Wasp, wins the race in 6h 42m, averaging 74.602 mph.
1936: Louis Meyer becomes Indy's first three-time winner, and he is the first winner to receive the pace car (a Packard). It is also the first year of the Borg-Warner trophy, and Meyer drinks buttermilk after the race, leading to milk's ongoing presence in victory lane.
1946: World War II has prevented the race from running for four years when Terre Haute, Indiana businessman Anton "Tony'' Hulman Jr. buys the Speedway and revives the 500. Despite fears the public's interest has waned, a massive crowd turns out.
1060: Defending winner Rodger Ward and Jim Rathman stage the greatest two-man battle ever seen at the Speedway. They swap the lead 14 times before Rathman wins after Ward slows to save a worn tire.
1965: Sixteen years after George Bailey's Miller became the first rear-engined car to enter the race, Formula One star ...
- George Bailey's secret life. ('It's a Wonderful Life' protagonist embodies...
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Deneen, Patrick J. December 19, 1997 700+ words
...delightful film features Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey, an Everyman who saves his small town from an evil Scrooge. As it happens, George Bailey only grudgingly comes to realize the...like banker Mr. Potter. Rather, George Bailey himself - Bailey the optimist, the...
- Scrooge, George Bailey and their movies share a uncommon bond at Christmastime.
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Wilson, Calvin November 27, 1998 700+ words
...first glance, Ebenezer Scrooge and George Bailey would seem to have little in common...road, what mistakes he has made. ``George Bailey is just the opposite. He has felt...Neill's ``Ah, Wilderness!'' ``George Bailey's revelation,'' Londre said...
- Jimmy Stewart was much, much more than 'Wonderful Life's' George...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Thompson, Gary July 3, 1997 700+ words
...idyllic Bedford Falls, but cursed. George Bailey may exemplify family and self-sacrifice...rhymes to Johnny Carson. We remember the George Bailey who saved ZuZu's petals, not the George Bailey who nearly jumped off a bridge, and...
- I am not George Bailey.(Short story)
- Magazine article from: Odyssey Ellenwood, Lucy May 1, 2006 700+ words
...than angelic. "Well, if you are an angel," he said, "what do you want with me? I am not George Bailey." "No, you are not George Bailey," she said. "I'm here to offer you a very special opportunity." "An opportunity? For...
- Nicholas Cage Top Choice for Modern-Day George Bailey, According To...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 18, 2000 700+ words
...hard to imagine anyone but movie legend Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey in the holiday classic "It's a Wonderful Life." But...thought that Cage would be the best choice for a modern-day George Bailey (27 percent). George Clooney was second among all respondents...
- Good News Holdings Asks, Is Mel Gibson the Modern Day George Bailey and Is This...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 7, 2006 700+ words
...In that movie, while drunk on Christmas Eve, decent man George Bailey chastises his wife, reduces his children to tears, and...family's forgiveness, and finds redemption. AFI voted George Bailey one of the top ten movie heroes of our time." "Mel Gibson...
- It's a wonderful legacy: two of Stewart's classic characters helped change how...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Alter, Jonathan July 14, 1997 700+ words
...Sen. Jefferson Smith changed how we view our politics; George Bailey of Bedford Falls changed how we view ourselves. "Mr. Smith...suggests a cheap, easy way into the heart. Like Jeff Smith, George Bailey is a much angrier man than the casual viewer may remember...
- The Reinvestment Fund.(on George Bailey Awards)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Philadelphia Business Journal Gotlieb, Andy June 22, 2001 700+ words
...and moderate-income, honored Community Legal Services, Greater Germantown Housing Development Corp., HomeCare Associates and investor Joan H. Behr with its' George Bailey Awards, named after the "It's A Wonderful Life banker.
- Sticking To His Knitting; With its back-to-basics approach and soaring earnings...
- Magazine article from: US Banker Engen, John January 1, 2009 700+ words
...sticking to their knitting. In those stories, Hermance's Hudson City Bancorp comes across as a modern-day iteration of George Bailey's building and loan - an old-style thrift that has thrived amid two years of industry turmoil by simply taking deposits...
- Indy Hub Celebrates One Year Anniversary; Organization Dedicated to Promoting,...
- Press release article from: Business Wire June 20, 2006 700+ words
INDIANAPOLIS -- This month, Indy Hub is celebrating its one year anniversary...on the evening of Saturday, June 24. Indy Hub was formed in June 2005 to connect...City of Indianapolis. Since last year, Indy Hub has worked with dozens of social...
Source: HighBeam Research, MEMORABLE MOMENTS AT THE INDY 500.(News)