GOING LIKE 80.(biography of Denise McCluggage )(Biography)

When this magazine was founded in 1958 under the title Competition Press, one of the first staffers to sign on was a young New York Herald Tribune sports writer named Denise McCluggage. A native Kansan who'd written for the San Francisco Chronicle, she'd taken to the slopes of Vermont and wrote about skiing and motor racing for the New York paper.

She was a skilled practitioner of both arts herself who overcame gender bias as both a driver and a writer. Nominated as a driver for Luigi Chinetti's Ferrari team at Le Mans in 1958, her entry was rejected-officials explained it was an ...

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