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...Many drivers of that era, folklore has it, learned their trade outrunning "revenooers" on mountainous "white-lightnin' trails," screeching through 180° "bootleg turns" without spilling a drop of moonshine. By the time of Papa Petty's retirement in 1962−induced by a nasty 150-m.p.h. crackup that left him with a limp−the circuit was slightly more respectable and much more lucrative. Today, attracting more than 1,500,000 spectators a year to modern high-banked tracks, drivers pad their earnings by turning their cars into billboards on wheels. This year Richard Petty reaped...
...Crackup. Scott's antics exasperated him, once to the point where he banished him from Villa America for three weeks for tossing gold-flecked Venetian wine glasses over the garden wall at a dinner party. When Scott began ostentatiously "studying" the Murphys for his fiction, Sara wrote him: "If you can't take friends largely, and without suspicion, then they are not friends at all. The ability to know what another person feels in a given situation will make-or ruin-lives." But Gerald loved Scott at his best and "the region where his gift came from-when...
...accounts by previous memoirists or by Hemingway himself. Baker's approach-a kind of uncompromised sympathy-grants Hemingway in abundance the personal virtues of charm, impulsive kindness, physical courage and even "grace under pressure"-if the pressure did not threaten him too directly. But long before his final crackup, Baker makes evident, Hemingway felt habitually threatened. The he-man swagger and the toothy grin camouflaged a soul less in the family of Jack London than of Edgar Allan Poe. Hemingway's life, like his writing, contained, in the words of Critic Edmund Wilson, "the undruggable consciousness of something...
...just goes to show that it takes more than some horrid divorce-court testimony by ex-Wife Dyan Cannon to dim the ardor of Gary Grant's devoted legions. There he was, three weeks after that nasty automobile crackup, bounding out of a Queens, New York, hospital looking nowhere near his 64 years and flashing that famous grin as several hundred shrieking females gathered to wish him well. "I feel great," said Gary, and proved it by planting a kiss on the cheek of Sister Thomas Francis, executive director of the hospital. "Oh, my," said Sister Francis, blushing...
...year-old girl. Father, a charming bookworm with a sense of history, seems like the only decent refuge, the one who places truth and integrity above success and money. Even Laurence's once sweet adultery now seems merely "functionalism." Small wonder that she is heading toward a crackup...