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...dottore, Armado to the capitano, Nathaniel to the pantalone and parasite, Moth (a wit) and Costard (a dimwit) to the comic servants (zanni). But it seems that Shakespeare also had in mind here poking fun at such now-forgotten men as Thomas Nashe, Gabriel Hervey, and John Florio...
Died. Dan Florio, 68, one of prizefighting's best-known trainers, himself a fair-to-middling onetime bantamweight, who in 47 years on the other side of the ropes turned out a dozen world champions, among them Jersey Joe Walcott and Floyd Patterson, whom the ever hopeful Florio hoped to see gain his crown for the third time in next month's match against Cassius Clay; of complications following gall-bladder surgery; in Jamaica, Queens...
Scrambled Parts. Unfortunately, Frame is not equal to the task of writing a definitive biography. As professor of French at Columbia University, he has made Montaigne his life's study, and his translation of the Essays is the best since the Florio translation of 1603 and infinitely more readable than that classic antique. But this book does not so much define Montaigne as scramble him. It is as if someone given nothing but the picture of an assembled car and its disassembled parts had set to work, knowing only that each part has to go somewhere. The result...
...Italy's Lorenzo Bandini, 29: the 447-mile Targa Florio, world's oldest and slowest major road race; in Sicily. With Co-Driver Nino Vaccarella Bandini piloted his prototype Ferrari around the twisting, hilly course at an average speed of 63.7 m.p.h., finished a full 5 min. ahead of his closest pursuer: a Porsche driven by Britain's Colin Davis...
...hand-crafted sports cars each year, the cheapest of which sells for $8,800. And when he puts them on the track, the customers are properly impressed. Last year, a Ferrari won the twelve-hour Grand Prix of Endurance at Sebring, Fla. A Ferrari won Sicily's Targa Florio. A Ferrari won Germany's 1,000 Kilometers of Nurburgring, and a Ferrari won France's Twenty-four Hours of Le Mans. It was a clean sweep of the world's four top sports-car races,* and, for Enzo Ferrari, his eighth manufacturer's world championship...