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...Driving superbly, Britain's Stirling Moss was leading the 1 2-hour endurance race at Sebring, Fla. and had the race all but won when officials flagged down his flame-red Ferrari and disqualified...
...reason: three hours before, when Moss pulled into the pits for brake re pairs, an unthinking mechanic had also filled his gas tank. Bitterly angry at the judges' decision, Moss did not stay around to watch another Ferrari driven by Jo Bonnier and Lucien Bianchi win the race...
Wonderland Park, just outside Boston, was all atwitter last week. Above the splashing of the fountains could be heard the squeals and coos of the visitors. "Peek under the rhododendrons, Lavinia, and see if they're using peat moss," whispered one. Burbled another: "I can never really face up to spring until there are pussy willows in the house...
When this ordeal by tension brought him close to crackup in 1957, Williams went to the late Moss Hart's psychoanalyst, Dr. Lawrence Kubie. Characteristically, Williams broke off the analysis when Dr. Kubie hit him where he lives, his work. Said Kubie: "You've written nothing but violent melodramas, which only succeed because of the violence of the time we live in." Williams' younger brother, Dakin, an amiable East St. Louis attorney and a convert to Roman Catholicism, drops broad hints in person and in print as to how Tennessee can achieve peace of soul. Says Tennessee...
Stocker Roberts, piloting a Ferrari Berlinetta identical to Moss's, did precious little dusting-off. He finished second in the Grand Touring (closed car) class, twelfth overall. "I was ahead of Moss going into the first turn," said Fireball sadly. "But I came in too hot and went wide. Moss passed me, and from then on it was adiós. I never saw him again." Stocker Weatherly also had a run-in with Moss: a broken distributor rotor forced him to slow down, and Moss impatiently nudged him off the course. "I don't think he meant...