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...suggest that your May 30 piece on Sterling Moss errs in emphasis? Sterling Moss is no more obsessed with danger than TIME'S editors are obsessed with deadlines. Danger is only a factor in his profession, and not to him by any means the biggest factor. Moss is simply a complete professional-and incomparably the best driver living-whose primary concern is unattainable perfection. If Moss is ever obsessed with anything connected with motor racing, I think it will be with that idea. But I can assure you that he does not love danger best; he does not love...
Prominent in arranging the settlement was manicured Moss Hart, who treated the combatants like the petulant children they were. Surreptitiously, Playwright-Director Hart herded the negotiating teams into separate rooms at the Fifth Avenue Hotel ("The producers had air-conditioning and a view of the street," pointed out an Equity spokesman), lectured them gently, ran messages. In 14 hours the deadlock was broken. Terms of the Moss-backed compromise...
...London dentist, Moss has been driving autos since he was ten. Muscular but small-he weighs 154 lbs. and stands 5 ft. 8 in. "with my thick socks on"-he is ideally built to withstand the hours of high-speed driving in a racer's tiny cockpit. His experience has taught him every trick of handling the 250-h.p. Grand Prix cars. He can swing a car into a slide to kill speed, use a bank bordering on a turn, as a buffer to keep his rear wheels on the road. He won last year's Italian Grand...
Frightening Situation. Moss is at his best in the tire-tearing duels on the corners, where drivers must rapidly downshift from speeds of 160 m.p.h. to 60 m.p.h. and below, then shift up again. Says Moss: "The thing to remember is that it is the speed with which you come out of the corner that matters. If you come out of a corner five miles an hour faster than any other man, you've got a big advantage going into the straight...
Since 1956, 13 Grand Prix drivers have been killed, and Moss himself admits to fear: "In a race, it's a matter of inches. If you overdo it, you lose control of the car. Once you know you have lost control -that the car can do what it wants and not what you want it to do-it's a very frightening situation." But it is that sort of danger that Moss loves best. "Driving a racing car," he says, "is something I think I'll enjoy for as long as I live." Then he adds: "However...