Word: donald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Donald Campbell was a hero only by his own demand and not by his own assessment, for the materials were scanty indeed...
...young life he lived in the shadow of a robust, rich and famous father: Sir Malcolm Campbell, gentleman sportsman, holder of nine world land-speed records and three water-speed records, knighted by King George V. Even after Sir Malcolm died, in his bed at 64, the shadow remained. Donald sought out mediums, trying to contact his father-sometimes, he claimed, with success: "There he was, laughing uproariously as he called me 'a complete clot...
...Campbell was sitting moodily in his father's study when a friend rushed in to tell him that U.S. Industrialist Henry Kaiser was building an aluminum boat designed to break Sir Malcolm's 1939 water-speed record of 141.74 m.p.h. "Why should they have everything?" Donald exploded. "By God, they won't have that record!" So Campbell, who by his own admission had "never traveled at more than 70 m.p.h. on the water and not much more on land," set out at 28 to fight his overmatch with speed...
Solitaire in Spades. Melancholy, superstitious, plagued by self-doubt, Campbell kept talking himself into retirement and right back out again. "Donald," says a psychiatrist who knew him, "was always trying to prove himself to himself and to his father and to the world." Last week, on Coniston Water, a small, deep lake in northwest England, Donald Campbell, 45, tried for yet another water-speed record in a jet-powered Bluebird hydroplane designed to skim the surface on two 6-in. sponsons fastened to the pontoons. His goal: 300 m.p.h., a speed realm that no one had ever touched. Playing solitaire...
...Died. Donald Campbell, 45, British speed seeker; in the crack-up of his jet-powered boat; on Coniston Water, England (see SPORT...