1958-08-09 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1958.

Men of speed

THEIR SECRET FEARS...

and

Stirling Moss

the tiny killer...

Of course, they said, he must come into the pits soon. It would be suicide to drive on. But lap after lap tho Uttle groon car stayed in front...

IT

by ROBERT GLENTON

But Katle was happy. Hor Chisel in hand he suddenly husband was away from the looked round; Katie was miss.

of motor

racing. Ing. He put on a little vexed There were many precious frown. More than a trife bossy, golden days for them both, he likes people to get on with before he would buckle on kis the job and not go wanderlag crash helmet again,

off.

hazards was just a little pale blob of canvas on the spinning tyre. At more than 120 miles an hour a blink of your eyelids and you would have missed it altogether as it whirled in and out of view..

And Moss, swarthy with sun, seemed wholly absorbed on homo building.

There was no time to linger. Not even for the quickest of silent goodbyes to her new home in the sun..

It was evening before the ntr- diner lumbered lo Buenos Aires. It was a red-gold even- Ing. The diamond lights of the white city shone hard to fight the lame of the selting sud.

And there was astonishment

someone who knew him very

It would have taken moment.

white South well indeed to read the pecker a child confessing to n sture for the alterat passen.

occupation in his eyes,

. But Stirling Moss, was staring. For some time now he had been straining his eyes in the American sunlight, waiting for it. With thin lips and a tight little knot of misery inside him he watched the blob grow from the size of a thumb nail to the size of the thumb itself.

ot

Still it spread, never but of sight.

While his speed mode a gaudy 1054. blur of the Enfin crowds watch- And he was building a hous?, ing in the grandstand, he now is nay young husband might do hind only a layer of canvas be- In Kew or Clapham, With one tween him and noisy destruction, difference. He had chosen a The rubber had been played site by n sun-blenched bench in from his tyres,

Nassau, under the bluest skies in the woriti.

Dul Katie was back in a The laughing content had cubed from her face. "London," she said reluctantly broken greenhouse window, And Fangio.... "wants you un the phone."

the year.

THE RIVALS: "You were wonderful," said Fangle. "You made it a terriflo race,"

wald Moss. With them is Birs. Fanglo.

·

Ts. They had paid lite atten- tion during the flight, To the short, slim. balding young man The chisel dropped to the with the pretty girl, the young He knew the gaudy Grand floor as Moss rushed to the door, man with the over-propensity Soon i was while before this race, the Europe to the Argenting for the they want you to race she entity

Prix pageant was moving from but Katie caught his arm, I for adornment, his gold tle-clip, bracelet, ring.. wrist Argentinian Grand Prix

thret world championship race of sald, "please don't. Can't we watch stray, enormous golden stay here a tie longer.... presentation Mercedes cufflinks. 'The enormolis vans em- please?"

But when the accommodation biszimmed with the Inmous

Indder was wheeled to the door names, their frughts of gutter- But only the palm trees heard there was all the almosphere of ings Cars were on the roads. her. Moss was gone,

a royal visit. A bubbling Latin And the drivers, the men

crowd, dark-fared and mnus- But then he paused. Mosi Francis explained. On the tached, in their white bats and walted.

Cooper, designed for short races "There are Boine snaga." and which do open-necked shirts, stood there

not involve wheel- shrieking "Stirling, Stirling, Francis, "The gearbox is a bit changing there were bolta to Stirling."

suspect,"

unfasten, and on the front even "Go on. Tell me it all.”

the brake assembly to be dis-, "One other thing,” hestrated mantled,

Alf Francia grunted and sald Francis. "You won't be able to It would take all of 20 gaul night. Looking worried, he have a tyre change."

minutes. That might just as paused at the door. "If your Moss froze. "WHAT?" he well be 20 years.

tyres do start to go please pull velled.

Francis stopped talking. Moss out, Don't take chances—it'n brooded....his unceasing am- not worth it."

fetter

R

ke Ind fought with and beaten' so often, were making their leisurely way

through

'Crazy....

And in the driving mirfor

The task had s problems. there behind him was the red The plot

In the house he, was theuling of land among the car of Fangio the world cham- palm trees

the sunshine to Buenos Aires, to his catler from London, "Of had already cost

Fangio would

be there. course I want to go....but how pian, the local boy, the South £2,000, and lo keep down Fangle, the ultimate challenge can I? I haven't got a car. You American idol. Moss was lead-

Moss, expenses

nateral to them oil, who had, already know that." ing but there was much of the born

of the do-it- 190-mile race still to be run,

that he would do minounced movement, had had more racing. yoursel? the garage hull Ars so that

The Argentinast he could stall power tools and

rnee might even be the last opportunity to work on the house himself.

Katie, his xay, dark-haired steal some of his glory from

A wheel change was out of the question.

Even to slow down would mean losing the

rue. Buy a

tyre burst--now

horribly Imminent-would be as 22-year-old Canadian wife, did dendly as driving over a land the fetching and exrrying. mine,

There was an imperceptible pause....Moss's right foot bore Armly down on the throttle pia,

★

Carrying

It was an odd way to spend

him.

He stened Impatiently.

the

For, after Fangio, Mose is darling of the motor. racing-mad South Americans Mom, Jaunty and nonchalant "What car?" he bellowed. as a boulevardier, beamed, "A Cooper Climax? Are you

This was one of the good crazy? That's no good. It's for short races. It has never moments of a celebrity's te covered more than about 78. Here was the noisy promise of alles. It wouldn't stand up thousands who admired him and would cheer him If he to a Grand Prix."

rarod. The voice from London talked long and hard,

Eventually Moss hold, "Wo-cit I go to the Argentine and it out. But I'm not promi- Ing anything until I have."

•

'Tell all'

Only Moss would be missing. He bud signed to drive for Vartwalls and they had had Insuficient time to Kel their curs ready. j honeymont,..and thai in There would be no race for what L really was,

Often in those blissful

with careful Their Moss. marriage was only a month or Nassau days he would shrug two bid. Admittedly they had away, the sggling, regret and been to Holland for three days yearning. aller die wedding but Moss hud

Britain after had to rush to

When me 20 and newly married it is the most normat thing in the world to set up home, That is what Stirling wards ta judge a beauty com- Moss was doing, just tule petition

PARADE

JUNIOR

SPACEMANI

1

To Kalle he smiled, bui told her nothing of his thoughts.

He did not hear the telephone Tiny.

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

42, this week

de-

rupe trlet:

tricks perpetrated by frauds but not Yogls.

The pumped in, kept up by natural Matiesh," pion of a 12-year-old boy for nir pressure and held in place minced the indian rocketing a man into space to: on the ground by a water-Blled nad being buried alive as cheap.) two weeks and bringing him hose running all round its base, back alive is revealed in conte It caught the "utters" when detall by the National Science ! was being blown up ready fur Foundation. Defence Depart a Wild West rodea. Three rips ment seientists who ate con appeared in its cover of nylon real happiness, said: "No Yog sidering the plan, suy il fubric. "workable,"

Fears that the dusters might Wold ever design to do these things-but then there are sa The boy is Jonathon Cravitz, sturg a panle amorg the ex- son of a department store own- pected 10,000 spectators decided few reol Yoga in the world."

Bearded Mukesh, who claims to have discovered the secret of

er in Flushing, a New York the organisers-they are having His secret for joy? "Sit on suburb, te attends a "special cut up into strips and hope deerskin-nothing

to recover a Irnotion of their think of God for ten minutes

progress" class at school.

After building and Arbut loss by sales to farmers as barn every morning."

several rockets, he wrote

Jetter lo Pontagon Defence

COVETS,

something about rockets and mus satellites."

else and

found

headquarters. It began: "Now I JUNGLE JAY - WALKER: EARTHBOUND "BEEP. don't class myself a rocket ex- Motorcyclist John Goss callided STERS"-Three ingenious young port but I do know a little with a jay-walking hippopota- "beepsters" have been

while riding home in guilty in Los Angeles of run- Jinja, Eastern Ugando.

ning an unlicensed radio station, The hippopotamus walked out They said that for fun they be of the shadows at the roadside gan Imitating the dying signats In front of his machine..

of Sputnik 1 in transmissions of Gass WDS fnocked uncon- their own last December,

He went on to describe crash programme to develop 4,030-pound

heavily

mental satellite rocket

the tesis no

series of rockets.

Instru- that

would embrace in one effort at scious fat a few moments and

planned for a

The phony beeps" confused: came round to see the hippoo- scientists maltoring the Sput- tunus ambling off towards the le signals closely. It would Lea

Two-stage nearby river Nisur, leaving inc rocket using a modifed Air

The Federal Communications bruised motorcyclist to wheel Commission had to send clee- Force Allas, a Navy Vanguard his damaged machine home, and small Army Sergeant

tronic detectives out on the job for the final thrust and to slow

before the beepsters' trunkmiller

it down for re-entry. Pru

chutes, would also be used.

་

DOGS, DOGS 'AND DOGS: was located.

A little old lady in Manhattun

For the qualified technicians, has been ordered to get rid of Jonathan said, "The nose cone -44 of the 40-dogs she keeps in

her brownstone house over by The world's population muy rise

is the ablative type, although it

has

a hard core of copper the Hudson River.

which is covered by pyceram.

• The shell

SWINGING ON A STAR?-

to 4,000 million by 1980, and to

She said children kept bring- 647,000 million by the end of and she the century, according to figures

is An aluminium ng stray dogs to her

titanium alloy with costs of re- could not find it in her heart released by the United Nations.

festive metals-gold magnesium to deny any dog shelter. chromium silicon, . monoxide

elc."

THE YOUNG IDEA: Two .:16-year-old schoolboys been charged in court trying to extort $25,000 die Canadian Pacific Raliway Company.

The present world population Many of the dogs were pedi- is estimated at 2,000 million. greed she rald, ond they were

"While it took 200,000 years

all nice, friendly dogs. But for the world's human popula- neighbours complained that

tion to reach 2,500 million, it have was Uke living down wind from will now only take 30 years to with a, clrous,

add another 2,500 million," says from

the report: "IT STINKS"-Fifty children With the present rate of in- ranging from three to ten years crease, it can be calculated that. old have been picketing In 600 years' time, the number there is not enough grass on it, be such that there will be ualy. "municipal playground, because of human beings on earth will Backed by their parents and one square yard for each person carrying placards raying? "We to live on, including Arelle want " and "It sinks," wastes, descris and mountain they stopped · other going into the play area.

In a letter to the company they threatened to blow up or derall one of their trains.

Railway police arrested them at they went to a lonely rendezvous to collect the money,

chlidren tops.

ÙIDING A HIPPO: There are.

- "LARGEST TENT" WRITTEN Their main complaint is that OFF: The largest tent in the the City Council has dumped à: world, $120,000 worth, and 130 mixture of mind and wood chips no less than 41 "How 10" Lities

yards long, has been written off, t- the playground,

as a completa (unsured) loss

Its an American "air

in Brussels.

house rated

by having.

among the new books to be pub- Babed in the autumn. Šim plest title="How to Do It," and GEORET· FOR JOY: The the oddest-low to hido...

air World-renowned Yogi, Mahash! hippopotamus."

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Fantastic

He knew this

bition to be world champion

A worn tyre con kill a driver as certainly as a guillotine. He made up his mind. "I'll race," he said.

could depend on the points he Moss, the man who values Argentinian could score in this race....his logic and skill as highly as he

be

new

nodded.

circuit well. How is frayed and Inst chance to bent Fangio in despire gambling en fortune, locerated tyres. With a full his own country: size! Car It would be bad His thoughts focusses on those

And itle Katie, she lay in enough, but the tiny little Cooper tyres, Bebind every other pit wheels, with so much more work there would be great piles of bed and heard her husband

wander how many. do, promised to as shining, richly smelling dyres as mutter: politeness, al-

profligate with rubber as wed crisply

OS breakfast ears the Cooper has got. He be signed his

fast asleep before croissants.

she most. solicitude, name on envelopes, autograph ding guests with champagne.

Tyres to waste, to was

• squander.

could think of an answer that books, edges of newspapers. Normally atyre change in n

sounded even vaguely helpful. But In his hotel room Moss Grand Prix

Tures as vital as fuel, Is П fantastic underwent one of his mercurial evolution.

Stirling Moss is a man who bludgeons his own imagination It was a violently charged changes. His face was cold and

and

slaims Stirling, Mos

presentiment. Ife With him who shouted for hard.

Hardly before the car has that no driver could last Ave Alt was

Next afternoca, a jack is underneath minutes if he ever let emotions gunahine, Surling Moss drove his wife. His eyes shone. There Franels, he Polish-born chief braked,

through the fury of haste in his mechanic who can be na stub One hurried tug of the handle loose from the dark comers of down to the circuit, after he had rovements. "Katle" he bellowed, bura as Moss can be pontifcal, and up flashes the front of the his mind.

In his shirt sleeves,

local Surlar car. Hasty blows on the hub

struggled through the papers and discovered But that night, looking out fallans were happily telling the Get ready. We're off to Buenos Aires.'

stoned, his eyes coloulating, his caps and off go the old wheels, face non-committal,

On slide the new. In seconds over the litter of Buenos world that the Cooper didn't the car in a diminishing speck Aires, Moss knew perfectly stand an outside chance with down the track.

well that he was on the edge the Ferraris and Maseralls. of a most hazardous under. taking.

At

Poor Katle. One moment Moss weg stressing the importance of Francis started to folk. home-building. Now he was arst it sounded a cheerful story. fidgeting and complahiing be "It's a great ear." he said. cause it took her so long to pack. "It has certainly got tho speed."

FERDINAND

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

MILE-HIGH GIANT JUST AN ILLUSION

·SIMPLE MASS HYSTERIA EXPLAINS EMINENT SCIENT Today the famous

1221

Dr. Glutz is quoted ng the mila

JOHNNY HAZARD

TY

BUT CIR, THOUSANDS

SAW THE GIANT ~HOW CAN IT BE IMPOSSIBLET.

'PRINCE KIRI SMASHES HIS-TRUCK UNDER THE ELEVATOR PLATFORM-- AND THE LOWERING 7 APPARATUS JAMOJE

READ MYARTICLE-- IT EXPLAINS' ALL--

ON THE ALL

"Why can't "we charge wheels?" demanded Moss.

--JUST HEARD DR. GLUTZ,

THE

EMINENT-

THAT SUPPEN JOLT... WE'VE STOPPED DESCENDING! HAVE TO CHANCE RAMMING HER UP OVER THE LIP... we're GETTING OUT OF HERE.....

BUT WE GAW HIM-- WE WERE IN

JAMI'S

HAIR!

AND

HE IN

CURS

FOR A

WHILE.

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