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With the field covered it was now that Leo Beebe, Ford racing director, contrived to stage a dead heat by having his two lead cars cross the line simultaneously. [41] The ACO told him this would not be possible — given the staggered starting formation, the #2 car would have covered 20 metres further, and thus be the race winner.
In 1966, Beebe takes over the racing division. When he and Ford arrive to inspect the program, Shelby locks Beebe in his office and gives Ford a ride in the GT40. Shelby makes an agreement with Ford: if Miles wins the 24 Hours of Daytona, then he will race at Le Mans. If not, Ford will take full ownership of Shelby American.
Miles was born on 1 November 1918 in Sutton Coldfield, then in Warwickshire, now in the city of Birmingham. [1] He was the son of Eric Miles and Clarice Jarvis. [2] After a failed attempt to run away to the United States, [3] Miles left school at the age of 15 to work as an apprentice at Wolseley Motors, [2] who sent him to a technical school to broaden his knowledge of vehicle construction. [3]
Fritz Beebe (1914–1973), American newspaper publisher; George M. Beebe (1836–1927), American politician; Gilbert Wheeler Beebe (1912–2003), American epidemiologist and statistician; Hank Beebe (1926–2023), American composer; Herman K. Beebe, American fraudster; James D. M. Beebe (1827–1917), Sandy Hook Pilot; John Beebe (born 1939 ...
Leo Beebe was the team captain, and Edmund Thomas was the team's leading scorer with 140 points in 20 games for an average of 7.0 points per game. Football star Tom Harmon appeared in 13 games for the basketball team and scored 100 points for an average of 7.7 points per game.
Lewis Charles Beebe (December 7, 1891 – February 17, 1951) was an American brigadier general. [1] [2] [3] He was one of the survivors of the Bataan Death March. Beebe was Chief of Staff of U.S. Forces under General Jonathan Wainwright during World War II. He had previously been an assistant chief of staff under General Douglas MacArthur.
Beebe directed for the first time when Leo D. Maloney, who had been directing a film called The Test, fell ill. [4] [2] Beebe became known as a director of low-budget films and serials. [4] He was once described as being "an expert at making something out of nothing." [1] The first serial directed by Beebe was 1932's The Shadow of the Eagle. [5]
Leo Bebb is the head of a religious diploma mill in Florida who had once served five years in a prison on a charge of exposing himself before a group of children. Buechner says of Bebb that "he came, unexpected and unbidden, from a part of myself no less mysterious and inaccessible than the part where dreams come from."