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...biggest sponsor of U.S. auto racing, the American Automobile Association has backed everything from the annual 500-mile Indianapolis Speedway classic to midget races on 1-mile tracks. Lately, however, the A.A.A.'s top brass has been worried by the sport's mounting cost in human life-more than 170 deaths in the U.S. since 1945. The disaster at Le Mans, France, where 82 were killed by a runaway car (TIME. June 20), helped decide the issue. Last week in Washington. President Andrew J. Sordoni announced that starting next year the A.A.A. would "no longer be identified" with...
...A.A.A.'s withdrawal, while a surprise, struck no death blow to U.S. auto racing. At week's end track promoters, drivers and racing-car owners were already planning to set up a new organization to replace the A.A.A. contest board. Said the Indianapolis Speedway's owner, Anton Hulman Jr.:"I see no reason why [the A.A.A. action] should affect...
...mile away. On Saturday nights the clatter of ragtime music mingled with the wail of ambulances. Its leading citizens have been as bizarre as Beale Street itself: "River George," a giant roustabout of bloody fame; "Tittiwee" and "Black Slick," both pimps; "Treetop Tall" and "Coal Oil Johnny," two policemen; "Speedway," a gambler; and "Dr. Scissors," a famed Beale Street medicine man. They frequented such dives as Peewee's, a citadel of early jazz, the Hole in the Wall, and such infamous gambling dens as the Grey Mule and Hamet...
Died. Bill Vukovich, 36, two-time winner (1953 and 1954) of the Memorial Day Indianapolis Speedway 500-mile race; in a five-car pile-up as he led the pack on the 57th lap (see SPORT...
...other nice days rolled into one," he wrote in his autobiography. Gentlemen, Start Your Engines, published last week (Coward-McCann; $5). "If you get into the Indianapolis 500, no matter what the outcome, you feel amply repaid for a year of work." For Shaw, the big race at the Speedway was worth more than a year-it was worth his whole life. From the day he first raced (and thoroughly wrecked) his own car-a homemade "bag of bolts"-at a half-mile, fairgrounds track in Lafayette, Ind., he was headed...