Dining-Drinking
February, 1964
Its title taken from the sorrowful statement of a Grand Prix driver whose car had just run off the road and killed a man, Robert Daley's The Cruel Sport (Prentice-Hall, $10) is an understanding but realistic appraisal of Grand Prix automobile, racing, perhaps the most dangerous, demanding and exciting of all games men play. Based in Paris, Daley covers European sports for The New York Times. His book is the distillate, in ample text and 165 photographs, of four years of reportage on the big Euro...
