"THE CHINA MAIL,`.
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1959.
THE NEW POWER ON THE ROAD
IT MEANS 100 M.P.H. IN 31 SECONDS
X-Ray CarTest No. 1
Austin Healey 3000
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TODAY the China Mail
introduces the X Ray Car Test-and with, it presents the new Aus- tin Healey 3000 which I have been testing in the South of France.
This is the first British Motor Corporation car to have the new x-eylinder C-type engine with a tupucity of 2.012 ce, dit wis previously 2,839 .c.).
BY BASIL CARDEW
The binger engine
raires dise brakes on the front pulled power output from 117 to 124 mg up as surely as at half the brake horsepower, and I was speed in the Previous Tixtel able to drive from standstill to which had drum brakes,
disc brakes are not 31 power assisted and need a good up Pressure from the fool,
40 in les an hour in less than
sends and to 100 miles on
fraction over cur in a
Top speed SCOR from 104 miles an hour to well
secanus.
over 110
Good push
With this lusty engine it was reconry to use more powerful brakes. I found that at 00 mulles a hour the latest Girling
The
This new Henley is produced in two forms two and four seaters. There are rather a 30 of optional extras, luding overdrive, wire apike heater, hardtop and radio.
wheels,
the But bastelly,
extra power, better brakes, and a few
additional rimmicks cast ite more than the previous model. £344 Two-seater: £824 plus purchase tax-£1,100 (ogainst £1,159 for the Healey 100-Six now replaced). Four-seater: £829 plus £346 tax-£1,175,
With me in master Healey who said; "This car is almed mostly for the United States market. And don't com plain about that. For it is the males abroad which keep down the price here."
the car was Donald designer
-(London Expren Service).
Sinatra: The early years
PRANK`SĪNATRA only
FR
just made the light of
day early on December 12. 1915, in the flat where his father Martin, and his mother. Natalie, had lived
for some years.
early_years
MICHAEL RUDDY
continues the story of Frank Sinatra, one of Hollywood's most colourful, controversial characters, Instalment 2:
It was near the fire s- tion where Martin Sinatra Known all over Hoboken as
deter worked and not far from Dolly Sinatra, she was the gymnasium where he mined that her son was going to have a better life than she kept himself in trim for his and her husband had. fights as a bantam-weight in the Hoboken
AFCENS..
attendant at
all
A faithful buxing the Demeralle Party meetings
Soft-spoken and easy-going wan Frank's father, 11.Man
horn.
It was through a combination of self-confidence, hard work, a driving compulsion and astute publicity,
How rich is Prince Philip?
TODAY, with the gruelling 15,000-
mile tour of the North American Continent behind them, the Queen and Prince Philip will be taking a well-earned rest away from the glare of publicity, and roar of the crowds.
During the tour this Prince from one of Europe's oldest royal houses has rubbed shoulders with the princes of the New World- with the dollar millionaires of Chicago, with the chiefs of great aluminium and power combines in Canada.
Has it ever occurred to you how he com- pares with them when weighed in the New World's own scales in the scales of wealth?
Just how rich is Prince Philip himself?
The question is suddenly given point by the report that Prince Philip has given £1,000 towards the rebuilding of Gordonstoun, his old school.
Suddenly we realise that the Duke is some- thing more than a much-travelled State Institu- Uon. He is someone like ourselves, with money of his own to spend or invest or donate as he chooses.
But exactly how much money?
At the time of his marriage In November 1947, the Duke was popularly considered to be a pear mon.
The gossip columnists related that his pay until then had been £8 89, a week from the Navy. After marrying Princess Elizabeth he would also get a marriage allowance of £4 78 Od-plus as, 2d. a day ratión allowance since he would no longer be living In ness.
•
One suit...
Then we learned that Prince Philip at the time had only one grey lounge suit bought by Nothing has come easily to himself apart from his uniforms, Frank Sinatra.
When his inte father's powes- Even today, millionaire,sions arrived from Paris at the he does nothing easily.
In 1939, during the hot sunt- mer, Frank Sinatra sang soul- fully with the Hurry James orchestra,
when he skipped supper rather than face the maternal wrath.
After school he worked on the delivery lorry of n Hoboken world of pop music. newspaper, the this made him come a reporter.
Neither he nor Harry caused nny great exeltement in
Observer, and deelde to be-
When he left high school, he
He boxed under the name of with gets or coal and food and whom he had met
clothing when the going was to lake hard,
Marty O'Brien.
He wanted his son care of himself. So he taught him the value of a punishing left and fast right,
Frank's parents hoped their con, their only child, would be- come a civil engineer.
ilis mother, also bern in Italy, was very umbitious and strongly principled.
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wan
at a
Good-looking
talked to Harry James
the
at
end of the war the frugal young man had promptly had them mended und altered for himself,
Some people, of course, will treat much evidence as gossip column whimsy.
They will point out that the luxurious homes of his uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, were also home for the young Prince.
knit courts of Europe-including on entry on the subscription list of £100,000 from the Czar enabled the young couple to settle down in sultable comfort. £100.000~$9. ny be Ex- claimed-how can there be any question about Prince Philip's fortune when his father received auch a vast sum?
But nineteen years after Uni nler gift from Moscow, when Prince Philip
was a baby of 12 months, his ther WGS roughly bun- died out Greece inte exile. His pos
My German purae la loaded now, pair of fiannol bags, an evening
So penniicas before,
dress, an odd uniform or two, a And I've a stack of toggery squash racket, and perhaps a
I never had before;
eiphon of soda water. .But And for a spouse for litle Vic because he has become the Con- John Bull will dearly pay→ sort of Her Majesty the Queen Oh! curt, my heart is he has to wear a lot of clothes
aching
and change them frequently. For our grand wedding day. He has to travel about the Yet John Bull did not pay country and to live a life which eul as dearly for Prince Albert I am sure is a private citizen as the Government of the day or as n Heutmant-commattilor wished. When he would neither choose for
by
It proposed an. himself nor be able to afford." Income for lum
£50,000 Houghton's correlusion from year, the House alt this--that the Duke would of Commons, be able to ciała. £33,000 in ex-
by tho penses, leaving, only £2,000
of
of
ROBERT PITMAN
wero
sections conscat-
Yet that taste of afturnce ed. Even much
The poorest
Jed
Tory
tlon,
the
G
oppost year llable to tax. At the time reduced Mr Butler would not confirm
to Mr Houghton's figures Refus £30,000 — ol- ing to discuss any private tax though the Queen Inter was accounts, he simply said: "I
One was the Lord Warden- ship of the Stannarles, a post involving the Cornish tin mines.
But
The cost
and the ward gatherings, she became a copy boy on the Do- had good connections.
server and within a couple of Las Vegas recently, where he could hardly provide him with of what he managed to keep ng for year, a cub sports reporter.
In capital, especially since the bis mony was spent in helping able to add to the income from Imagine" he is not quite right She used to interpret
His girl friend
Nane was playing with his band
the Tropicana Lounge,
Mountbatten wraith was then other exiles.
come State appointments which in the final figures he came to." Italan neighbours who did not
22 petite brunette, Sald the them Barbato,
veteran bandsman. entirely tled up in the Cassel speak English,
were in her gift. helped
schicol
At his death in 1944 his "In those
Lady days, Frank had a family trust in which
estate in Britain (where fur Rood voice. He needed ex-Mountbatten shared. dance. One night he took her
security reasons we may suppose to see a Bing Crosby movle at perience, but the quality Was
he kept & large part of it) had the neighbourhood cinema are there.
dwindled to £13,525, Quite either (a) Bing Crosby; or (b) "I k the only formal
apart from his sisters, Princo the movie changed his whole training he had ever had was
Phillp's mother would naturally The cynics will also remind have first claim on this, from a guy in Hoboken who taught voice
to exercises us that before his marriage the
Greek This we can reckoni that the strengthen the throat muscles Duke was already a
Prince Philip has been urlee in his own right, Was his gosip columnists were not so fortunate at any rate in one vocalising.
will was a good-looking poverty-they
ask-the far from the truth when they sense Unlike Albert he is the same kind of expenses 09 sume brand of gilded poverty suggested that Lieutenant Phillip British in everything kid, with curly hair: well, wavy hair: and those bright blue eyes which is talked about when a Mountbatten in November 1947 parentage. Where
royal house is down to its lust was chiefly dependent on his incurred hostility, he has been phones in the royal palaces are
we'romed with whoichearted affection.
She saw to it that her Frank ກ້າ: clean hands, face and clothes when he went to school and to church.
Solo
life.
There and then he decided to become a singer--a great slager, They stayed on for the second show and Frank knew, with n passionate conviction and feree By the time he was 14. Frank, confidence, that he would be hid "bad I ay for as Hoboken suevers. was concerned,
High School Glee Club.
fare. He sang
a
"Frank
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half millen?
noval pay.
present wealth results from his State allowances since marriage,
of his twinkling when he sang." Oh, yes, they did make a TO- He sang in amateur competi- He was singing in church tions and won. He sang on cording of “All Or Nothing At
The answer is that for Prince In other words Frince Philip's rectals and in the Demarest radio for his supper and taxi All," which did not make his-
Philip's parents poverty had of meaning. At the time In local pubs for. Fold a few thousand en
Was profliable for or ten bui
their own marriage, among the Tommy Dorsey heard poor Sinatra. it and craged the young singer monarchs, they were undoubted- at twice the salty.
ly the poorest,
For that reason match Third
How Frankie sang on the radio for was at first hotly oppsied by both familles Only a royal nothing.
whip-round among the
He sang colo with the school and satoons for aine
And band.
when he
sang dollars a week. those who knew him ald was transformed,
for It was fortunate Sinatra that ho knew "His eyes would shine
playing song-plugger, elcro was kind of radiance bolding Hank Saricola. ite his face," a veteran agent in
he
and
Frank a pinto- perity,
show business
says. voice was good even" then,”
"His
Smart guy
A neighbour of the Sinatras,
Mm Mollie Golden, 2 plump.
friendly, soul, used to shelter
Sanicola had heard Sinatru
Frank when he was in trouble, singing at the Rustle Cabin, the She was always good for a rearhouse near Hoboken, and he piece
a sandwich had asked him to "plug" some
for him. Frank natlered, and gladly did so. The
of cake or
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songs caught
Wha
instalmont:
So
DELICATESSE
ho in
FELUCCI
on and Sanicola' gratefully told him that
helped him enormously
putting them over.
Enys Mr Sonicola, now hls personal manager: "We knew, both of us, that it was only a question of time before KOTA smart guy recognised Frank's talent and signed him up,"
he
On February 4, 1939, when was 23, Frank Sinatra married Nancy Barbato in the Catholic Church.
And on June 10, 1930, Harry James, looking for singer for his orchestra, went to the Rus- te Cabin on the pilvice or Mon- nio Sacks,
Ho engaged Frank Sinatra for the season at the equivalent of £25 a week. Although the engagement did not set the world on fire, it was, the bo- ginning of the Sloatra Saga.
By what form of mogield Sinatra, native of Hoboken, Nuw Jersey become Sinatra, "The Volco"
How did a lean and hungry singer, in, a nondescript read- house, The Rustle Cabin, be- idol, the teenagers' "Swoon+atra"?
como
relations of Europe's
the
Jibed the critics: "Ah, well, the Prince knows how to look after the in." .
Conclusion
suppose we pul the Duke's actual expense allowance at its lowest possible figure of say, £35.000 or £30,000 a year: how does he manage to rpend all that? more
He certainly does not have
evrept meal other men. He lives rent Albert free. The fuel and lighting and
What has that amounted to?
Over a hundred years earlier
But francially the natkn has Albert of Saxe-Coburg came to heen less generous. On marriage marry Queen Victoria in similar Parliament voted him £10,000 eircumstances. The tempoons a year, of which £2,000 (as Sir against him were bitter. One Stafford Cripps then explained)
close mocked-
WELCOME
SOHO
"'Ero comes another one, whipping up
'is courago parley wiv the nativos in their own tongue.
London · Express: BET VLAK.
tor
was able to tax.
paid direct by Parliament. Nor does he have to support a wife. Quite apart from her State income the Queen is probably one of the richest women in the world in her own right.
But other men do not havo. Prince Philip's expenses. Tako Its membera la oficial staff.
virtually n department of
State.
Yet Prince Philip must pay Thon, when Princess Eliza for their salaries perhaps belh became Queen, Prince £10,000 a year-out of his own Philip's allowance was raised to pocket.
£40,000 a year for life. Allow- Ing for change in the cost of living, Prince Albert's allow- ance was worth perboys two or three times as much.
But how much does the Duke actually get in creh? What is his tax position?
tho
Then there is trave). Ex-
when he ack Service copt -- transport Prince Philip pays'
for himself and his staff. The bist must in some years run Into thousands.
Better off
make Prince
When Parliament voted zum, the Chancellor of the Ex-
Such a staff and such travel chequer then Mr R. A. Butler will of course ROVO "this ruliniz: "The Philip's Ute, en luxurious ond Soyereign is not able to tax. grind as a multi-millionaire'a In the case of a male Sovereign But that is the outward show of the immunity extends to his Prince Philip's life. In terms of wife's Income, but it does not what he has left to him, to save. extend to the Consort of the or spend on possessions, he is present Queen,"
probably on a level with the inost prosperoun business men Prince Philip thus pays tax. in any medium-sized provincial But not by any means on all of town--the £10,000-a-year men. that £40,000. As Mr Butler with solid expense accounts, let'
painted out: The Inland us say.
Ílevenue make allowances for
members of
the
Of course that makes, Prince
expenses of Royal Family just on they make Philip for better off than he allowance for other people's would be had he remained out- expenses."
But aldo the Royal Family, when we consider the great job, he does now, is that got how It should be?
Labour MP Douglas Hough ton, a tax expert put it into ac- countant's language. He suid:--
Flour
compare the Duke'a £40,000 with the £40,000 yearly. "The Duke of Edinburgh can in salary, and expenses which claim, surely, that were he not we pay our Ambalsador....in the Consort of Her Majesty he Washington. Can there be any Houtenant-com- doubt at all that the Duke gives mander in the Navy and all the nation infinitely better that he would have would be a välde?
would
be
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