Masten Gregory died in 1985, of a heart attack in his sleep, while
living in Italy. There's a nice short piece about him in
Denise McCluggage's collection "By Brooks too Broad for Leaping" ...
[which, if anyone on this list has *NOT* read, I would tell you to
stop what you're doing RIGHT NOW and find a copy (ISBN 0-9642309-0-9;
you can probably get a copy through Denise, fax 505 982 5250).
Read "Ring Around the 'Ring" first.]
Anyway, Masten was best known for his habit of jumping out of cars
that were about to crash; he did it two or three times. He more or less
stopped driving in 1973 after LeMans when Jo Bonnier was killed.
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