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THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1957.
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"AH, MADEMOISELLE! THINGS ARE TIGHT HERE, TOO!"
On
STIRLING MOSS
will
Copyright is all countries
London Kibreng Service
the racc tracks England sets her cap at the honours
again
Vanwally the World
Life is one long race for Stirling Craufurd Móss. Ile is a man who hates to waste time.
He has learned to shave, dress and breakfast in fifteen minutes flat. And this sets the pace for the rest of his day.
To bis mind, leisure and activity are synonymous, So when he is not hurtling round the Grand Prix tracks at 100 m.ph, or more, he might be found practising judo, ki-ing on water or show. dancing swimming, spear 11shing, flying. making model cars, or theatre- gotrg.
Sleep, he says, is a waste of seven hours a day: "So I rarely three go to bed before two or o'clock in the morning"
This impatient approach to living docs much to
explain
his remarkable rise in
motor-racing world,
COULD NOT
WAIT
the
by JOHN COTTRELL
reernly, he set up five new world speed records in a Bri-
tisk M.G, on the Salt Flats at Utah.
There are few men who con-
closely as Sur 50 form Mora to the popular conception of a speed king. He is energetic and athletic, gay and sociable.
STUDIED CALM
crashea which
might easily have ended his career. He bus broken bones, suffered bruises all over, and lost many teeth. his Fortunately,
Inther 19 dentist.
Surfing Moss is n natural turn racing driver who kas talent or lis inherited much
B
The year did, however, begin with a great disappointment for Moss And it occurred in rather the strange circumstances in Grand Prix of Argentina.
This was Stirling's Aret race for Mercedes, and naturally he But when he was eager to win,
the fuel was in second place pump of his car failed and he had to retire from the race.
Exhausted and burning under Moss the hot Argentine sun, In inotor-racing he cuts from his parents, both of whom laid down for a rest at the side almost as romantic a figure as used be prominent figures in
of the track. Within seconds, a champion matador in bull- the 'umtor-facing world.
an ambulance arrived and eager He has all the mental and attendants were bustling him fighting.
physical attributes which go to away to the hospital as a cer-
racing champion tain victim of sun-stroke. make. a
Only after a fleret, gertlcula- strong but sensitive angers, an Once,
during a worming-up ice-cool brain, and razor-sharp ting argument did Moss manage
the persuade
Spanish- lap for a race, he spotted
Although he is only to an reflexos. attractive air and threw her a 5 fl. 7 in. tall and 11 st., in speaking attendants to turn him with invitation to writtena
dinner, weight, he also has great phy- louse. The ambulance,
sical strength, She accepted,
Yet because of siren scrcoming, returned lo-the- His behaviour
lends often
an old kidney complaint track and Moss took over an- people to believe that no is a was
by the other car. He finished the race rather concalted young m 1.A.F.
in fourth place. But this is a faise impression. Brillinrt cornering skill is
Stirling Mons Those who know him well will perhaps his greatest asset as a motor-racing pay tell you that beneath the suave driver. And he has always facade there is a very shy and positioned himself in the Farina modest person.
style-sitting fairly well back Moss is equally deceptive on in his car, with head back and the racing track. He shows no arms straight out. outward sign of nerves before
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of
and
Moss could not wait until he was old enough to hold a driv
licence. At the Ing
Age eleven, he stripped down pepped-up an old Austin Seven 20 practised fast cornering on a rough form track
AL 17, entered racing events. At 21, he became Bri- tain's youngest champion driver.
Now at 27, he has been ri- tish Champion live times has done more than any other back driver to bring Britai Into the top class of mutor
racing.
art
He was the first Englishman to win the Hallan Mille Miglie, Grand Prix, and the British
the Monaco Grand Prix. And,
without
Lurned
down
FLAIR FOR
SPORT
has
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Now American TV has to search for sponsors
New York.
NLY in America could you and for sale in a
shop blue velvet shoes with
platinum heels encrusted
SANITARIASAANILATERAL CELEBRANTIZENA RAVNOG PUTARAKETİNDEN DAMONMITGIRLO,
ALAN BRIEN reports from NEW YORK
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with diamonds and rubies-dirty plates and cutlery, man. More money is paid to price £2,500; a sofa covered then returns with them to the faces on this amall screen in 64 square feet of mink- the washing machine; a bed than could be earned in Wall Street or in the White House. price £320; a personal radar which rocks and roits act for finding lost golf electrically to cradle the in the United States receives balla; a self-propelled dumb- sleeper into oblivion.
£104 an hour, the President waiter which leaves the in this vast glittering dollar. £25, and a Congressman £2 dishwasher crosses to the arcade, the television set uels 103. dining-table to receive the as the smooth-talking Bales-
MR. RISING. PRICE OUTSTRIPS
MR. RISING WAGE
The highest-paid businessman
But for one 20-minute tele- vision appearance a star. Ne Frank Sinatra or Ethel. Mer- man can pocket up to £1,900.
All
Costs go up
television in America da paid for by advertisers. With costs sky-rocketing, only the fattest, richest corporations con afford the price.
fou
networks, too, welk the knife- odge between boom and slump.
**Progratines muy cost möre, but more people are secing them. So the price per viewer in really dropping," says an advertising ogent.
"More people watch, but do more people buy? A dollar də A dollar in tho annipal I ostimate that a top televi still
show, packed with big balance-sheet," replies, busi-
ness executive, names will cost £30,000 to pro- duce:
MONEY EARNED
120%
Fion
1150
110
105
like I Love Lucy in 80 instal- ments will require a cheque for around £1,000,000.
SPENDING VALUE I
BRITAIN PLACE ROUTING JAPAN GERMANY VALY USA BULUM SWITZERLAND
100
ME RISING PRICE Is still beating Mr. Rising Ware in
Britain-oven though we are leading the world in securing wage Increases.
Figures issued by the International Labour Office in Genera show that, although wages in manufacturing indus- tries have risen by nearly a quarter since 1953, the buying power in Britain has risen only 10 per cent.
Thin Dally Express Chart, drawn by John Bodle, shows that workers in other countries, have done better along 'fligh-street. The black section of the totals represents
sponding
of value
their
money. In France, wage increases bac outalipped price facreases. America, wages and prices have aimnost kept in step, Even lu Japan and Western Germany. the gawing away of the wage packets is not so high as in Brilala.
MORAL for Brush workery; Inflation I still rating out the
Electric Angler
Probes the Sea
made handsomely. In a good year, he may have a gross income of £8,000; and he has invested his savings wisely.
He enjoys motoring of kinds and has even inken part in the Veteran Car run from London to Brighton, His 1903 Cadillac broke down outside Buckingham Palace and he had to push it to get it started again,
In 1962, at his first attempHE thin
in the great he came second Monte Carlo Rally:" in 1954, he won the Gold Cup in the tortuous show- Alpine Rally. drove
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And once British saloon h's mind that
his ing 3,180 miles in be
bours.
DC
CAT
white line is going to win a battle for fishermen the work over. It is going to beat the sea- bed defence of many fish.. This in the thin line of 1- tack of the, electronic eral
British invention on a radur screen. It is an- other which is helping to revolu- tionise fishing.
race and looks supremely confident and relaxed as he als chewing gum behind the steer- ing wheel. In fact, he is in- variably keyed-up before a big race and never lets his mind
Moss has always had a great relax until the anish.
as a schoolboy would flair for sport: He is not, as some fear, he excelled at boxing, wrestling, imagine, a man Numerous narrow escapes have towing, swimming and made him fully aware of the jumping. But there was rare through Alleen countries, cover- hazards of his profession and any doubt in
3 days 17 he has learned that even a top motor-racing would racing driver needs a fair share special nicho.
Is parents. however, being of luck. So he always drives
well aware of the physical and with a miniature horseshoe sancial hazards of the pro- his lucky-piece. And he will fession, had other Ideas, never use a changing room with Stirling, they said, would be his unlucky number, eight.
This is just as well, for he cone a dentist like his father.
Yet Moss has still not fulan-
Fishermen using the elec- When this plan failed they has been involved in several tried to interest the boy first in ed his greatest ambition as
hotel management and then in racing motorist. Above all, he tronic fish-finder which pin- on a cathode farming. But it was hopeless. wants to become World Cham-points shoul
ray tube have found Young Moss had sold his plon-in a British car, show-jumping trophics
difficulty in separating the echoes of the sea bed and fish swimming just above it. So the scientists of a
A BIGGER, FASTER SAME-PRICE RILEY
The new Two-Point-Six" Riley, announced recently has seats for five or six. It costs £1,411, including
tax.
ond
taken uli his savings to pay for
a faster car. And, nally, after
some heated family arguments,
ke won his parents over and
gaincl their whole-hearted
support in his enterprise.
In this way, Moss has shown himself to be the most versatile No other driver in the world, man has taken part in such a wide assortment of events with such success,
CALCULATED
So it was that, at the age of culated-
RISK.
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For this reason he took a cal-firm at Barkingside, Essex, risk last Уса: in began intensive research to
drive the British find an answer.
in Grand Prix
17 Surling Moss made his deciding to
debut on the professional racing built Vanwall
At the time, the 'car slight youthful figure events.
in white overalls at the wheel had shown a remarkable turn
of a small white car.
over
Grund
the
Since the more they mag-
sen
of speed, but had not proved itsnified the fishy echoes the
Prix bigger they made the His cur was a Cooper 500, reliebilly and in his first event he set up distances,
bed, and more confusing became the picture, they hit on the idea of introducing a false dividing line between the two,
you
Je
won
the
Britich car.
timo that cham-
won two
a new 500 cc. class record and This year, his fath came in fourth. He finished Vanwall has been justided. He the season with eleven wins out has become the Arst British of fleen events.
river to win the Grand Prix The
year, Moss of Europe in following Joined the professional H.W.M. And with Vanwall he won the team touring the Continent In Pescara Grand Prix in Italy in his third season, he was char- record-breaking time. pton British racing driver. That This is the first
Tourist Britain has Trophy race in Ireland and Fionship races In a Ecuson. gained a Continental reputation And the Pescara victory was which today stands as high as the most convincing win by any Englishman's.
Britain in a European race. In three years he had pro-
Surling Moss hopes to win 11 novice to gressed from
the World Championship next £100-u-mceting driver.
year. It he succeeds, he will be the Arst Englishman carn the coveled title,
Of course, there is the fact But the great turning point that he is' getting married car for the in his career was got to come, shortly and he once said that In 1968, his performances can racing and marriage don't mix. ed him on invitation to join to But ho does not plan to retire powerful Mercedes team.
Leaf springing is back
By ROBERT WALLING
HE opening shot in the battle of new-model TURNING POINT
before Motor Show opendel
October is a new, big Riley. The British Motor Corpora- tion, who announce it, present same price.
the
I assess it as a sater car than
better
Seals! Six people with previous 100 mph Path bench in the front; five other finder, although it is faster. wise.
The new model is shorter, heavier, and has bigger, moro
powerful brakes..
01
its
For £167 automatic
exira
there
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He was now phic to compete until ho
to
has achieved his
ambition. with the top on equal terms
Even then, I 19 doubtful Bight Grand Prix drivers; more
will quit the This stocky, gears, and for 209, important, he was able to main whether Moss invaluable experience as under racing circuits.
with his It is collo-the "Two-Point- overdrive.
stuby to the world champion, well-dressed man, Six," because
2880 cc.
prico is Jana Fangle, The
thinning hair, is getting the unaltered six-cylinder engine, which £1,411, purchase tax paid,
With Mercedes behind him in middle-aged fook. But he has replaces the rougher, four- Also #nnounced today by the 1935, Surling Moss had his most still not lost any of his boyish cylinder 2443 ce unit in the old BMC is a new Morris Oxford successful year in motor racing enthusiama for cars.
Once he broka a leg in a Traveller at 2008, model
purchaso He was runner-up in the world
Ten days later An interesting development tax paid. It combina
the championship, gained his first racing crasti. that tho designers have comfort of a saloon with load- Grand Prix victory, at Aintree, he was driving again, with his roverted to poëmal lcat ing space of a fale sized van won the fortuous Mülle lcg in plaster. That is the
London pram Stevico, wringing on the back wheels.
Mimia in record time,
kind of man be la.
ia
Dramatic Effect
But how? It could not be painted in. The scientific method was to leave some- thing out. Now whenever the fish-finder beam hits tho sea bed the amplifier is cut out for 1,000th of a second. The effect is to create a thin
line white
immediately above the bottom.
An official of the firm says:
"The effect is quite dramatic. Group fish echoes which would otherwise have been quite in- distinguishable now stand out clearly."
A full description of the new method in to be given to flot experts from all over the world ot the International Fishing Ucar Congress, to be held at Haimbiting in October.
---(London Kaprass £ervica),
heart of the wage packets. Bed wage increases are of litlle value if the extra money will not buy extra goods.
CURE? ghrt production-- to cut costs arid let the existing wage packet buy more along High-street.
Meanwhile the consumer goes Then the hire of screen time ahead, buying more books, more will boost the bill by another newspapers, more magazines,
17,000 to £25,000,
even more radio sets, than ever Even a modest nimed series before.
As television, easta continue 10 increase sponsore are growing cannter and more couilous.
A glans Uko General Electric, one of the pioneers of television advertising, has pulled in its horos and backs only one epoc- 1acular show a wook instead of several.
U.S.
Two big flexos, the Tobacco Co, and the American Motor Co., have given up advertising national television altogether.
The three big networks not let their screens go blank. yet as Robert Sarnoff, the young go-aheed president of the Na- ilona! Broadcasting Co., Rays: "Our salesmen have worn out more shoe leather this selling reason than at any time in my memory."
One
half-hour unsponsored over this winter sencan would mean a loss of revenue of one- and-a-half million pounds. The
-London Express Service).
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