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Tag Archives: Grand Prix of Gibraltar

CELEBRATING SIR PETER USTINOV

TO SAY that actor, writer, dramatist, filmmaker, opera director and stage designer Sir Peter Ustinov was a renaissance man does him a disservice. None of the renaissance men I’ve read … Continue reading

August 9, 2013 · Leave a comment

AMÉDÉE GORDINI

THEY CALLED him le Sorcier—the Wizard—because Amédée Gordini performed sorcery in engine tuning. He worked magic as well in contesting Grands Prix and endurance racing in the 1950s against the … Continue reading

February 9, 2013 · Leave a comment