André Previn

December, 1958

American prestige, which has been taking a general world-wide clobbering lately, received a dramatic lift one day last June when a streaking Ferrari out-zoomed the field and captured auto-racing's European classic at Le Mans. France. Behind the goggles in the winning car was Phil Hill, a wiry, 31-year-old Californian who became the first Americano ever to triumph in the annual 24-hour plasma-chiller. For Hill. Le Mans was the heady culmination of a torrid streak that carried him to unprecedented...