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...total of 16 racing cars scrambled into the start of the 105-lap, 205-mile Grand Prix of Monaco. Only four laps later Britain's Stirling Moss, Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn somehow escaped uninjured from a three-car pile-up on a barricade of telephone poles. All afternoon the accidents continued, but no one was hurt. Only five cars finished. Still, World Champion Juan Fangio had to push his Maserati to the limit to cross the line in 3 hr. 10 min. 12.8 sec., a scant half-minute ahead of Briton Tony Brooks's Vanwall...
...world's long-distance prattling champion, Columnist Elsa Maxwell, 73, gave bemused Roman newshawks a dazzling sample of her art. Of her erstwhile enemy, the Duchess of Windsor: "My friend again!" Of her erstwhile friend, Monaco's Princess Grace: "Don't talk to me about that girl!" Of Grace's Prince Rainier III: "He's stuffed with decorations and hot air! I disapprove of Grace's marriage to a man without spirit or personality!" Of Italy's Cinemorsel Gina Lollobrigida: "Too obvious and never really sexy." Of Sophia Loren: "Sexy, very sexy...
...Principality of Monaco supports itself from man's gambling instincts, but the Commonwealth of Massachusetts thrives on sustained attempts at eliminating this type of vice. This was the aim of the state Crime Commission, which expired quietly last March 31 amid loud blasts of furor concerning its achievements in reform...
Hearing that Columnist-TV Panelist Dorothy (What's My Line?) Kilgallen had ground out an inside story hinting that Princess Grace is once again in a Grimaldi way, Monaco's Prince Rainier III turned a trifle purple, then chuckled away the entire miscoop: "Where do people get these things? It's really a mean thing to report. It is mean because it is inaccurate...
...sung by Italian Tenor Mario Ortica as Canio) got a bigger hand. All in all, last week's "routine" performances were perhaps a better measure of the Met's real stature than the thrills provided by such exciting visitors as Maria Callas, Renata Tebaldi and Mario Del Monaco. For an ordinary night at the opera, the Met is tough to beat...