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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I met Paul Newman at the 1977 SCCA National
Convention in St. Louis where he was re-presented the President's Cup he'd won
at the 1976 Runoffs. Learned a new word from his speech too, "encomium." I was
doing a motorsports column for the newspaper I worked for then, so after the
dinner when he was sitting surrounded by friends I introduced myself. He shook
my hand very cordially, and when I broached the idea of an interview he declined
with equal cordiality (Knowing of his aversion to such things anyway, I rather
expected to be declined). </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Later that evening the then-common post-convention
high-jinks ensued in the hotel basement not far from the ballroom. Tricycle
races ("Formula T") around the free-standing elevator column. Really small
kiddie tricycles. And there was PLN, matched up against Bob Tullius. "Ya want me
to show ya how it's done?" Tullius asked. "Nah, Joanne's been trying to
show me for years," Newman replied, lying with his stomach on the trike seat and
pedaling with his hands while Tullius tried it the regular way. I forget who
"won." The merriment lasted until someone not associated with SCCA and the
convention spotted Newman and bulled in to demand an autograph, at which point
PLN disappeared like smoke in the breeze.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just standing back, watching the proceedings and
how much he was enjoying the company of his fellow SCCA racers -- not a star,
not a big shot, just another racer having fun bench racing with people of
similar passion -- I had my column anyway. Didn't need the interview to do a
portrait of the man.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--Rocky Entriken</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=tarch@bellsouth.net
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 28, 2008 5:00
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Fot] Paul Newman</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I met Paul at a driver's meeting at an SCCA race at Lime Rock
some years ago. That's when he agreed to be an honerable FOT
member. He was very aproachable at the track as long as the subject was
racing. My wife started up a conversation with him later that day and
called him Mr. Newman. He replied "Call me Paul". His wife and
daughter were often up in the tower watching his race and were also very
approachable. He was still racing SCCA last year, but was doing regional
races instead of the National races that he did in previous years. He
was still winning, too. It was at an SCCA regional race in
2007 that Barbara Walters went for a track ride with Paul around Lime
Rock. She was doing a story about living a long life.
<BR><BR>-- "Richard Taylor" <<A
href="mailto:tarch@bellsouth.net">tarch@bellsouth.net</A>>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ten years or so ago,
I was sitting with a group of racers in the lobby of that Holiday Inn-type
hotel at the northeast corner of Daytona International Speedway. In comes
Newman and plops down on a sofa in a friendly-exhausted sort of way and starts
bench racing right there. In a few minutes he and I go over to the temporary
bar set up for cocktail hour. He orders a Budweiser and I order a Heinekens.
Newman digs into his pocket to pay for his beer and the bartender says,
“That’s okay Mr. Newman, it’s on the house.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The bartender then
looks at me. So I say “Well, do you know who I am?” He says, “No,
who are you?”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I tell him, “I’m
Richard Taylor from <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:place></st1:City>”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The bartender thinks
a second then says, “That’s great. That’ll be
$3.50.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Newman, still
standing there, chuckles. While I am waiting for my change he takes his free
beer over to our group and tells them the story; to which they all laugh their
collective asses off. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Of course there was
no escaping the aura of his celebrity, but somehow it never eclipsed the
camaraderie of our spontaneous little group of
racers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">If one can make a
judgment of a man by an antidotal moment, in my mind Newman exhibited class in
its noblest unrefined form. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Richard<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><FONT
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