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...banked, 3.81-mile course in a 103.m.p.h. practice run and remarking, "It's nothing. A simple course." Belgium's Olivier Gendebien went even further: "To win here, you don't have to be the best driver-only crazier than the rest." Britain's Stirling Moss and the foreign contingent clucked at the pink powder puffs that Stock Car Driver Joe Weatherly wore on each wrist as goggle wipers. Said Stocker Glen ("Fireball") Roberts: "Hill and Moss? They've only got two hands and two feet, haven't they? I can dust...
...M.C.A. for ten years before serving in the Army Air Corps as an administrative officer during World War II. Hearing that the corps was anxious to produce a Broadway show to rival This Is the Army, he offered unsolicited help, announcing to the top brass that he could get Moss Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, etc.-none of whom he knew. Then he confronted Hart in Manhattan's Hotel Plaza and told him that General Hap Arnold needed his services. Then he told Arnold to wire Hart. The result was Winged Victory-eventually worth more than...
Unhappy Tourist. Moss Hart persuaded Lazar to become an independent agent soon after the war. Swiftly, his list grew until it included George S. Kaufman. Herman Wouk, S. N. Behrman, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, Frank Loesser, George Cukor. And as his personal legend developed, Lazar found himself caricatured in the work of his clients: Hart lampooned him gently, and George Axelrod mortalized his little friend as Irving ("Sneaky") LaSalle, the Hollywood literary agent in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...
...Died. Moss Hart, 57, peerless creator of Broadway and Hollywood classics, a genial, satanic-looking genius who wrote 22 plays (including 1937 Pulitzer Prizewinner You Can't Take It with You) and directed eleven (including My Fair Lady and Camelot); of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. The son of an impoverished cigarmaker, Hart broke into the entertainment business as a social director on New York's "borscht circuit." wrote his first successful play (Once in a Lifetime) at 26 with longtime collaborator George S. Kaufman, went on to turn out a long series of hits including...
With the same sneering aplomb, Gallo last week went on trial in Manhattan on charges of trying to muscle in on a Brooklyn restaurant owned by one Theodore Moss. Not only did Gallo try to sell him $48,000 worth of stolen liquor, testified Moss, but he had demanded a cut of the business. As a persuader, said a detective, Gallo had threatened: "I'll put you in the hospital for a couple of months...