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Sopwith, famed stunt flyer, hydroplane racer and aircraft builder (his World War II Hurricanes held off the German Luftwaffe), whose Endeavors twice challenged for the cup, lost in 1934 only by the narrowest of margins-four races to two-to Harold S. Vanderbilt's Rainbow...
...feel of a wheel, but when it hit 25 m.p.h., Jill came tumbling after. Finally their two-year marriage went all aflivver and Jill sued for separate maintenance, demanding all of their communal property. Definitely not for her: the 1961 Porsche, Mercedes 3005L, 1936 Rolls-Royce, slinky Scarab racer and Cadillac hearse (for toting around skis and surfboards) that Lance quarters in the garage back of their $250,000 Beverly Hills, Calif, honeymoon cottage...
...California's Dan Gurney, 31, a star auto racer at home, but never before winner of a European Grand Prix race; the Grand Prix of France at Rouen, carefully nursing his German Porsche through the 219½-mile race at a slow (relatively) but sure average speed of 101.9 m.p.h. while faster cars broke down and dropped out. - Tennessee State's Wilma Rudolph Ward, lithe triple gold-medal winner at the 1960 Olympics; the 100-yd. dash at the women's National A.A.U. championships; in 10.8 sec., only .1 sec. off her own meet record...
...pace for the first half of the 22-day, 2,656-mile grind. Van Looy was knocked out of the Tour when a close-crowding photographer's motorcycle struck a rock and catapulted into his bicycle, spilling the 28-year-old Belgian into the path of 19 other racers. Said a rival racer: "Whoever wins now, his victory won't be complete. He won't have beaten Van Looy...
...months after rescuers hacksawed him, battered and bloody, out of the unrecognizable wreckage of a pale green Lotus at England's Goodwood International Grand Prix, Auto Racer Stirling Moss, 32, was talking about getting back behind the wheel. In pajamas and striped dressing gown, the durable daredevil sat in a wheelchair at London's Atkinson Morley's Hospital, joshing the "head-shrinkers" who were putting him through tests, flirting with nurses and telling friends, "I'll be teaching you the twist soon." Doctors no longer feared paralysis from brain damage, but they said it would...